Summer Quotes - Page 37

• The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.

  Wallace Stevens

  Winter, Clouds, July

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.429, Vintage

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• How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

  Charles Wright

  Fall, Turns

  Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.54, Macmillan

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• What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon?

  Gordon McLendon

  July, People, Hot

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Memories, Home

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.

  Denise Levertov

  Fire, July, Green

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom,
  The ancient poet sung it,
  And dear it is on summer days
  To lie at rest among it.
  I know the realms where people say
  The flowers have not their fellow;
  I know where they shine out like suns,
  The crimson and the yellow.
  I know where ladies live enchained
  In luxury's silken fetters,
  And flowers as bright as glittering gems
  Are used for written letters.
  But ne'er was flower so fair as this,
  In modern days or olden;
  It groweth on its nodding stem
  Like to a garland golden.

  Mary Howitt

  Lying, Flower, July

  Mary Botham Howitt, “The Broom Flower”

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• The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Song, Rain, August

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.9, Pendragon Press

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• What wondrous life is this I lead!
  Ripe apples drop about my head;
  The luscious clusters of the vine
  Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
  The nectarine and curious peach
  Into my hands themselves do reach;
  Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
  Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

  Andrew Marvell

  Life, Crush, Flower

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• My life is like the summer rose
  That opens to the morning sky,
  But ere the shades of evening close
  Is scattered on the ground - to die.

  Richard Henry Wilde

  Morning, August, Sky

  Richard Henry Wilde, “Stanzas”

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• It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Real, Winter

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.174, Penguin

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• The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies
  You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong
  The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong
  And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Night, August

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• Once upon a Lammas Night
  When corn rigs are bonny,
  Beneath the Moon's unclouded light,
  I held awhile to Annie...
  The time went by with careless heed
  Between the late and early,
  With small persuasion she agreed
  To see me through the barley...
  Corn rigs and barley rigs,
  Corn rigs are bonny!
  I'll not forget that happy night
  Among the rigs with Annie!

  Robert Burns

  Moon, Night, Light

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• The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
  All on a summer day:
  The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
  And took them quite away!

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Heart, August

  1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.11,'Who Stole the Tarts?'.

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• When in still air and still in summertime
  A leaf has had enough of this, it seems
  To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage
  Its drifting in detachment down the road.

  Howard Nemerov

  Air, August, Mind

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov”, p.440, University of Chicago Press

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• As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
  Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
  Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  Or stand under the trees in the woods,
  Or talk by day with any one I love,
  Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
  Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
  Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
  Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
  What stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Stars, Spring

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
  Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
  News from the humming city comes to it
  It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Garden, Cities, August

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  August, Months, Slumber

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• From the great trees the locusts cry
  In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy
  Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove
  In the blue distance sobs-the wind
  Wanders by, heavy with odors
  Of corn and wheat and melon vines;
  The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze
  Greets them, one by one-now the oak
  Now the great sycamore, now the elm.

  Hamlin Garland

  Distance, Boys, August

  Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

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• He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Science, August

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Laputa, etc." ch. 5 (1726)

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• Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

  Kobayashi Issa

  August, Insects

  Kobayashi Issa, “Even With Insects”

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• When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Senior, Autumn, August

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.354, Harvard University Press

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• When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

  John A. Macdonald

  Pot, Fortune, Showers

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• The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.

  George R. R. Martin

  Morning, Cold, 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.25, Bantam

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• We play the whole summer. I do think guys should be compensated. Just like I think college players should be compensated as well. Unfortunately, it's not there. But I think it should be something, you know, there for it.

  Dwyane Wade

  Player, College, Thinking

  "Dwyane Wade: No pay for Olympics". Statement to the Press, www.espn.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

  James Thomas Fields

  Heart, Sunshine, Self Improvement

  James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”

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