Summer Nights Quotes

• 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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• Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

  Bryan Procter

  Smile, Summer, Night

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• Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
  nourishing Night!
  Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
  Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Stars, Night

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.27, NYU Press

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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

  Summer, Night, Men

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• 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." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

  William Ernest Henley

  Summer, Night, Men

  William Ernest Henley, “Between The Dusk Of A Summer Night”

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

  Bernard Williams

  Love, Summer, Night

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• Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Summer, Stars, Night

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• Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Summer, Night, Sound

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.721, Ageless Reads

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• The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.

  Leonard Cohen

  Summer, Swimming, Moon

  Song: Closing Time, Album: The Future, 1992

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• The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Summer, Night, Lightning

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.112, Vintage

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• ...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

  Robert Ludlum

  Summer, Beach, Loneliness

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Aquitaine Progression: A Novel”, p.64, Bantam

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• You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Summer, Women, Firefly

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• Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.

  Ray Stevens

  Beautiful, Summer, Nature

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• You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.

  Rod Stewart

  Summer, Beer, Night

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• In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Summer, Real, Night

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• On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

  Michael Cunningham

  Summer, Night, Lovely

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• Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and refreshing coolness! How beautiful the long mild twilight, which, like a silver clasp, unites today with yesterday!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Summer, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “Poems. New edition”, p.410

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• I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

  Andy Rooney

  Summer, Children, Father

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

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Flower

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

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• Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

  Mark Strand

  Summer, Strong, Passion

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.406, Knopf

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• The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Book, Night

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

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• But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
  Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
  Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Flower, Rose

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 67

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• Lord, what fools these mortals be!

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Stupid People

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 115

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• One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.

  Rachel Carson

  Summer, Night, August

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• Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick.

  Robert Adams

  Summer, Children, Night

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