Summer Quotes - Page 26

• The heat of autumn
  is different from the heat of summer.
  One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Autumn, Apples, Cider

  "The Heat of Autumn" by Jane Hirshfield, www.poetryfoundation.org. 2006.

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• There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Sweet, Autumn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

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• When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.

  Djuna Barnes

  Book, School, Autumn

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• Something told the wild geese
  It was time to go.
  Though the fields lay golden
  Something whispered, "snow."
  Leaves were green and stirring,
  Berries, luster-glossed,
  But beneath warm feathers
  Something cautioned, "frost."
  All the sagging orchards
  Steamed with amber spice
  But each wild breast stiffened
  At remembered ice.
  Something told the wild geese
  It was time to fly-
  Summer sun was on their wings,
  Winter in their cry.

  Rachel Field

  Winter, Autumn, Ice

  Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”

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• I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.

  Trey Gowdy

  Badass, Bad Ass, Volunteer

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• I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.

  A. L. Rowse

  Beauty, Morning, Wall

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• I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Taken, Garden, Sight

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Over 120 Short Stories Including Rare Sketches From Magazines of the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.703, e-artnow

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• One Sallow does not make Summer.

  Horace

  Latin, Doe

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• The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.

  Tacitus

  Beautiful, Latin, Winter

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• ... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Spring, Autumn

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.134

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• Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.

  Wumen Huikai

  Inspirational, Time, Spring

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• The dearest events are summer-rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Events, Summer Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
  Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
  When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
  Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Health, Rocks

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.

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• Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
  And after summer evermore succeeds
  Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
  So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Clouds, Joy

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.147

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• To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
  For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
  Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
  Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
  Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
  In process of the seasons have I seen,
  Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
  Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Eye, Autumn

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
  And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
  An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
  Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
  The childing autumn, angry winter, change
  Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
  By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.

  Backseat Goodbye

  Life, Song, Sunset

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Spring, Reality

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Love You, Eye

  Sonnet 18

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• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
  But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
  Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
  Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
  Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
  Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Spring, Lying

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

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• It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history.

  Arthur Harry Church

  Running, Morning, Flower

  Arthur Harry Church, Humphrey John Denham (1919). “Gossypium in Pre-Linnaean Literature”

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Flower, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

  George Washington

  Marijuana, Hemp, India

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• Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that pre-occupy your existence and get back to what's important now.

  Eddie Murphy

  Autumn, Winter, Race

  "Fictional character: 'G'". "Holy Man", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Ocean, Dark, Blue

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2000). “Tales of Unease”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

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