Summer Quotes - Page 6

• I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

  Violette Leduc

  Journey, Fire, Hiking

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• O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

  William Blake

  Flames, Hair, Joy

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• I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

  Brendan Behan

  Beer, Winter, Men

  "Brendan Behan Dies in Dublin", www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1964.

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• By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Inspiring, Cheer, Fall

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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• The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Autumn, Equality, Human Rights

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Leadership, Art

  "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.

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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Spring, Winter

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Flower, Eye, Tree

  'Pastorals' (1709) 'Summer' l. 73

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• Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

  Deb Caletti

  Quiet People, Wonderful, People

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Spring, Autumn

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

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• Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

  George R. R. Martin

  Soon Enough, Childhood, Ends

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.69, Bantam

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• Rejoice as summer should...chase away sorrows by living.

  Melissa Marr

  Sorrow, Should, Rejoice

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• Answer July-
  Where is the Bee-
  Where is the Blush-
  Where is the Hay?
  
  Ah, said July-
  Where is the Seed-
  Where is the Bud-
  Where is the May-
  Answer Thee-Me-

  Emily Dickinson

  July, Bud, Hay

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “Emily Dickinson”, p.13, Moondance Press

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• You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

  Mario Batali

  Years, Squash, Asparagus

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• Between the dusk of a summer night
  And the dawn of a summer day,
  We caught at a mood as it passed in flight,
  And we bade it stoop and stay.
  And what with the dawn of night began
  With the dusk of day was done;
  For that is the way of woman and man,
  When a hazard has made them one.
  Arc upon arc, from shade to shine,
  The World went thundering free;
  And what was his errand but hers and mine -
  The lords of him, I and she?
  O, it's die we must, but it's live we can,
  And the marvel of earth and sun
  Is all for the joy of woman and man
  And the longing that makes them one.

  William Ernest Henley

  Night, Men, July

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
  To darken nature and be summer woods.

  Robert Frost

  Tree, Bud, Woods

  Robert Frost, Robert Newdick (1932). “Robert Frost”

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• We go in withering July
  To ply the hard incessant hoe;
  Panting beneath the brazen sky
  We sweat and grumble, but we go.

  Ruth Pitter

  July, Sky, Sweat

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
  O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
  O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
  A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.

  Walt Whitman

  Land, Voice, Growth

  Walt Whitman (1871). “Leaves of Grass: Passage to India”, p.87

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• Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler
  About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
  Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date
  My boss says, no dice, son, you gotta work late
  Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
  'cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

  Eddie Cochran

  Baby, Son, Boss

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• Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
  All soft and still and fair;
  The solemn hour of midnight
  Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,
  
  But most where trees are sending
  Their breezy boughs on high,
  Or stooping low are lending
  A shelter from the sky.
  
  And there in those wild bowers
  A lovely form is laid;
  Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
  Wave gently round her head.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Flower, Sky

  Emily Bronte, “Moonlight, Summer Moonlight”

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• Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
  'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

  Eddie Cochran

  August, Causes, Sometimes

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• These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Beach, Spring

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Beauties of Shakspeare”, p.58

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• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
  With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
  And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
  And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

  Jenny Joseph

  July, Purple, Gloves

  "Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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• Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

  Georg Brandes

  Delight, Picnics, Woods

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.

  Richard Wilbur

  Rain, Heart, Past

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.434, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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