S Quotes
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“Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss—taunting, deep, and luscious. The sun. The heat. The thousand echoes of a timelessness before time, when every day seems longer than the next and no day seems likely to ever truly end. Summer.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?”
“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
“Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.”
“Summer fades; the first cold, Northern air
Sweeps, like hatred, through still days -
The August heat now gone elsewhere,
To Southern, bird-filled coasts and bays;
Amid constricting vales of cloud,
A pale and liquid Autumn sun
That once beat down on an empty plain
And may again. And may again.”
“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.”
Source: In a green night: poems, 1948-1960
“Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldiers' dreams”
“Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.”
“Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored.”
Source: Honey Moon Dog Daze
“Summer had always had a crush on Nat, though, ever since she was five years old. No one, no boy had ever been able to shake her out of her crush on Nat, so at least that was a good thing about Drew. ", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“Summer had come to sit on New York's face.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Summer had grabbed its beach towels, buckets and spades and packed up for the season”
“Summer hadn't brought me what I wanted. I didn't think winter would do me any better”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slant of yellow light.”
Source: Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.”
Source: Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”
“Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.
Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.”
“Summer has landed overnight, and the street is full of arms and legs that are not usually seen; they seem detached from their owners like so many piles of limbs in the death scene of a war film.”
Source: Eggshells
“Summer has set in with its usual severity.”
“Summer has weeks left, but once the calendar displays the word “September,” you’d think it was Latin for “evacuate.” I pity them for missing the best weather and the most energized time of year…It’s an extremely impressive display of life at the apogee of summer, the year’s productivity mounded and piled past the angle of repose. It is a world lush with the living, a world that-despite the problems- still has what it takes to really produce.”
Source: The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“Summer in Adelaide: the nourishing and destructive golds, the soft fruit and the fire.”
Source: Adelaide
“Summer in Gang Land
It all started with my lesbian guidance counselor.”
Source: Short Stories My Couture Childhood
“Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with the pink and white puffs of blossoming monkeypods. Cooling trade winds prevail all summer, bringing what the old Hawaiians called makani 'olu' 'olu--- "fair wind".”
Source: Honolulu
“Summer in Pittsburgh had a way of hating you, had a way of beating you down, getting into your bones and thoughts. Only the strongest survived the humidity of Pittsburgh summers, until winter came on and brought with it a test of a different sort, to see who was strong enough to make it to summer. All weather in Pittsburgh had an attitude, forced you to submit to it. Dared you to survive.”
Source: Here Lies Memory: A Pittsburgh Novel
“Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.”
“Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.”
Source: On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988
“Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.”
“Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life.”
“Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.”
“Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.”
“Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all ways with happiness their guide; And from my brushing feet moths flit away In safer places to pursue their play. In crowds they start. I marvel, well I may, To see such worlds of insects in the way, And more to see each thing, however small, Sharing joy's bounty that belongs to all. And here I gather, by the world forgot, Harvests of comfort from their happy mood, Feeling God's blessing dwells in every spot And nothing lives but owes him gratitude.”
“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.”
“Summer is a season of opposites--a time where you want to do nothing and do everything. Humans are equally likely to spend an entire day lying in the grass as to stay up all night dancing beneath the stars. The heat has that effect on them [...] Summer encourages us to savor our time, in whichever way we choose to.”
Source: Wings of Starlight
“Summer is a season of opposites - a time where you want to do nothing and do everything... summer encourages us to savor our time, in whichever way we choose to.”
“summer is beaches, sunsets and sweet perfection, but it is also goodbyes, growth and impermanence.”
Source: poetic insomnia
“Summer is for music, and it’s time to turn up the volume! Whether you're strumming a guitar by the campfire, dancing to your favorite tunes at a festival, or learning a new instrument at music school, the season’s rhythm is calling. Embrace the endless melodies, the sun-soaked jam sessions, and the vibrant beats that make summer unforgettable. Let the music move you, inspire you, and bring people together. So, grab your instrument, hit play on your summer playlist, and let the good vibes roll.”
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.”
“summer is in me—clouds and lakes of shadows, rippling under the trees”
“Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.”
“Summer is like a break period in school. Very short but full of fun.”
“Summer is like poetry, but sometimes a bit too bright.”
“Summer is like the break period in school —very short but full of fun.”
“Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. Winter is of a more heroic cast, and addresses the intellect. The severe studies and disciplines come easier in winter. One imposes larger tasks upon himself, and is less tolerant of his own weaknesses...The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.”
“Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.”
“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“Summer is summer.”
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”
“Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.”
“Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.”