Summer Days Quotes

• Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Air, Blue

  "I taste a liquor never brewed" l. 5 (ca. 1861)

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

  Bill Watterson

  Summer, Made, Knows

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• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, June, Long

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• But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Eternity, Love Poems

  Sonnet 18

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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

  Summer, Art, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Soon Enough, Childhood

  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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• In summer, the song sings itself.

  William Carlos Williams

  Summer, Song, Nature

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.349, New Directions Publishing

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• Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Love, Summer, Clothes

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A life without love is like a year without spring.

  Octavian Paler

  Summer, Spring, Love Is

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• The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.

  Dan Simmons

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Drood”, p.755, Hachette UK

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• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Summer, Time

  Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)

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• Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Life, Teacher

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 17, 2017

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• In winter I get up at night
  And dress by yellow candle-light.
  In summer quite the other way
  I have to go to bed by day.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Winter, Night

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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• I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

  John Keats

  Love, Marriage, Summer

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Anniversary, Nature, Spring

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  How Precious Life Is, Done, Lasts

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Memorable, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]

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• One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

  Jeannette Walls

  Summer, Light, Each Day

  FaceBook post by Jeannette Walls from Jun 22, 2015

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.

  Scott Neustadter

  Summer, Memories, Impact

  "500 Days of Summer". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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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

  Summer, Nature, Spring

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

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• I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Attention, How Precious Life Is

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.89, Beacon Press

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• So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Men

  Sonnet 18

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