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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• 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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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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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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• 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 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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• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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• Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

  Russell Baker

  Summer, Nature, Suffering

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• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Time, Spring

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• O summer day beside the joyous sea!
  O summer day so wonderful and white,
  So full of gladness and so full of pain!
  Forever and forever shalt thou be
  To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
  To some the landmark of a new domain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Pain, July

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.140

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• The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Night, Perfection

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.358, Vintage

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• A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

  Bar Refaeli

  Summer, Hands, Perfect

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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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• You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence...

  Scott Neustadter

  Summer, Simple, Events

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

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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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