quotations about summer
Summer is the year's early manhood.
PLANCHE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
letter to Charles Lamb, May 1826
Other seasons in this part of the world come and go, sometimes too soon. Summer overstays his welcome. You drop subtle hints. "My, just look at the time!" you say. Summer just sits there with a blank expression on his sunny face. (Yes, Summer is male. We know this by his clueless insensitivity). In another month, kids will be going back to school for the, uh, "fall." Do you think Summer gets the hint? Of course not. Oh, he might get up and stretch his legs a bit along about September and might take a step or two toward the door. But it's all a ruse and a cruel one at that.
ANONYMOUS
"Summer is here: What are we going to do about it?", The Commercial Dispatch, July 6, 2017
I have a fancy that the sun
Regenerates what he looks upon,
And love to loiter in his rays
Thro' the warm length of summer days.
BESSIE RAYNER BELLOC
Summer Sketches and Other Poems
It happened one summer
It happened one time
It happened forever
For a short time
A place for a moment
An end to dream
Forever I loved you
Forever it seemed
THE MOTELS
"Suddenly Last Summer"
You thought it was a falling leaf we heard:
I knew it was the Summer's gypsy feet.
KARLE WILSON BAKER
"Rondel for September", Blue Smoke
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet XVIII
Summer is rolling across our paths with all its pleasures, like a cinnamon roll unrolling across your plate leaving a trail of gooey goodness to gather on your fingers and lap up until every drop of sunshine and sugary satisfaction is enjoyed. Oh, it's going to be hot and marvelous, but there are decisions to be made ... like what to drink to quench that summer thirst.
TRINA MACHACEK
"Is This You? Drinking in Summer", Nevada Appeal, July 7, 2017
Here is the ghost
Of a summer that lived for us,
Here is a promise
Of summer to be.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Rhymes and Rhythms
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Summer is unclothed, and bears a wheaten garland.
OVID
attributed, Day's Collacon
Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm a-gonna raise a holler
About a-workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date
My boss says, "No dice, son, you gotta work late"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
EDDIE COCHRAN
"Summertime Blues"
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
JEANNETTE WALLS
The Glass Castle
Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
It is beautiful, all, in its going,
This wonderful, sweet summer time;
The leaflets glide down through the sunshine,
As poets thoughts glide into rhyme.
Sweet Summer looks over her shoulder,
And whispers once more her farewells--
I wonder if Peace will come with her
When her feet are again on the hills.
MARY T. LATHRAP
"The Parting with Summer"
We got sweaty sheets and an ocean view
and it feels like a time machine
well you can't forget what you never knew
so come erase this summer with me
SUPERCHUNK
"This Summer"
I cloud nine when I want to
Out of school, yeah
County fair in the country sun
And everything, it's true, ooh, yeah
Hot fun in the summertime
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
"Hot Fun in the Summertime"
The kindness of summer produceth in perfection the bounties of harvest.
ROBERT DODSLEY
The Economy of Human Life
A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special--that makes everything move so fast--is that a summer romance is doomed to end.
JOHN VORNHOLT
Coyote Moon