Quotations About / On: SUMMER

  • 41.
    Here, in front of the summer hotel
    the beach waits like an altar.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Kite.")
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  • 42.
    A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "A Winter Walk" (1843), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 168, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 43.
    It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 21, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 44.
    No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
    As I have seen in one autumnal face.
    (John Donne (c. 1572-1631), British divine, metaphysical poet. repr. In Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. John Hayward (1929). The Autumnal, Elegies (1633).)
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  • 45.
    'Twas a balmy summer evening, and a goodly crowd was there.
    Which well-nigh filled Joe's barroom on the corner of the square,
    (Hugh Antoine D'Arcy (1843-1925), French-British poet. The Face upon the Floor (l. 1-2). FaBoBe. Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.)
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  • 46.
    Our Summer made her light escape
    Into the Beautiful.
    (Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. As imperceptibly as Grief (l. 15-16). CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  • 47.
    In a far recess of summer
    Monks are playing soccer.
    (John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers.")
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  • 48.
    Over the winter glaciers,
    I see the summer glow,
    And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,
    The warm rosebuds below.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "The World-Soul," Poems (1847).)
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  • 49.
    It was as lovely a summer as those that precede wars.
    (Angela Carter (1940-1992), British postmodern novelist. repr. Penguin. "Elegy for a Freelance," Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces, p. 117 (1974).)
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  • 50.
    And the case of butterflies so rich it looks
    As if all summer settled there and died.
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Autumn.")
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