Summer Quotes - Page 5

• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

  Diane Ackerman

  Nature, Memories, Memorable

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

  Henry Adams

  Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon, Depth

  Henry Adams (1946). “The Education of Henry Adams”

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Running

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

  William Law

  Perfection, Today, Clarity

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.327, Paulist Press

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• To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  June, Lovely, January

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• How sociable the garden was.
  We ate and talked in given light.
  The children put their toys to grass
  All the warm wakeful August night.

  Thom Gunn

  Children, Night, Garden

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.103, Faber & Faber

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• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  Hal Borland

  Autumn, Moon, Night

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• What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

  John Keats

  Nature, Wind, Gentle

  John Keats (2009). “Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats”, p.114, Modern Library

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Winter, Years

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• I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Flower, Blow

  1595 Oberon. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc.1, l.249-52.

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• No price is set on the lavish summer;
  June may be had by the poorest comer.

  James Russell Lowell

  June, May, Poorest

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
  And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Wind, Poetry

  Sonnet 18

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• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

  Natalie Babbitt

  August, Years, Long

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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• If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

  Bernard Williams

  Love, Night, June

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• Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Song, Spring, Blessed

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• Summer makes a silence after spring.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Spring, June, Silence

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• Now is the winter of our discontent.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Merchant Of Venice, Most Memorable

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Perseverance, Gratitude, Time

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• But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Girl, Book, Thinking

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• It will not always be summer: build barns.

  Hesiod

  Hard Work, Garden, July

  Hesiod (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Hesiod (Illustrated)”, p.49, Delphi Classics

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• O for a summer noon, when light and breeze Sport on the grass, like ripples o'er a lake Alive with freshness! when the full round Sun, With the Creator's smile upon his face, Walks like a prince of glory through the path Of Heaven! - Thou vast, and ever-glorious sky, Mantling the earth with thy majestic robe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Sports, Sky, Lakes

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “A Universal Prayer, Death, A Vision of Heaven and A Vision of Hell”, p.129

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• The last of Summer is Delight -
  Deterred by Retrospect.
  'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -
  Enchantment's Syndicate.
  
  To meet it - nameless as it is -
  Without celestial Mail -
  Audacious as without a Knock
  To walk within the Veil.

  Emily Dickinson

  Enchantment, Delight, Veils

  Emily Dickinson, “The Last Of Summer Is Delight”

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• To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Lying, Book

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1309, Harvard University Press

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• It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

  Walter Winchell

  Get Up, Chairs, Ifs

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