Summer Quotes - Page 40

• The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, College, Experience

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• Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Sweet, Flower

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 29

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• Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Book, Cutting

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

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• From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

  John Milton

  Stars, Fall, Noon

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 742 (1667)

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• Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution. . . . I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph.

  Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

  Winning, College, Names

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• Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

  John Milton

  Dream, Children, Learning

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Morning, Nature

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.37, Vintage

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• How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

  William Blake

  Love, Sweet, Pride

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.45, Pearson Education

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• But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Air, Ties

  Robert Frost (2016). “Promises to keep: Poems. Gedichte”, p.168, C.H.Beck

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• Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide, And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed, Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed. From off your face, into the winds of winter, The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing; But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter, When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing, And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going.

  Wilfred Owen

  Beauty, Spiritual, Song

  Wilfred Owen, Jon Stallworthy (1983). “Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments”, Chatto & Windus

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• She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

  John Dryden

  Beauty, Flower, Age

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3032, Delphi Classics

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• The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Cheer, Rain

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summersday, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Fate, Long Ago, People

  "Tuck Everlasting". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.

  Laurens van der Post

  War, Moon, Night

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• My depth of purse is not so great
  Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
  That merely buying doth elate:
  The books I buy I like to read:
  Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,
  Beneath a cloudless summer sky,
  By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,
  The books I read — I like to buy.

  A. Edward Newton

  Book, Sky, Greed

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• The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.

  James Salter

  Morning, Garden, Years

  FaceBook post by James Salter from Nov 04, 2015

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• When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in the history of the United States, and the year in which Caroline Walker was sure her life had reached a pinnacle of uselessness.

  John O'Hara

  Tired, Years, United States

  John O'Hara (2013). “Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.79, Penguin

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• But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Beautiful, Winter, Love Is

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• Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.

  John Pople

  Children, East, Pittsburgh

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• The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

  Martin Feldstein

  Oil, Purchasing Power, Reducing

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• People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

  David Neeleman

  Differences, People, Trying

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". SFGATE interview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Lying, Fall

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

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• I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Lying, Rain

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

  Aeschylus

  Dog, Stars, Lying

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• When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.

  Helen Schucman

  Learning, Breathing, Effort

  Helen Schucman, Scribe (2008). “A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume”, p.280, Foundation for Inner Peace

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