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“How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city”

Inspirational Reality Light Running Faces Cities Sun Buddhism Summer Mirrors Winter Heat Running Away Footsteps Knots Rainstorms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.”

“I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.”

Thinking Has Beens Nature Morning Sun Fire Wind Flower Hair Summer Silver Autumn Yellow Butterfly Mist Meadows Yellow Leaves Morning Mist

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Light Would Be Values Sun Air Taste Summer Spring Bird Garden Sight Plant Fruit Better Off Summer Sun

Book:Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

Source: Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

“The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.”

Wells Done Hours Sun Office Summer Red Train West Evening Twilight Summer Days

Author:Bear Bryant

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

“As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.”

Years Turns Sun Summer Lovely Shy Autumn Slips September Attempting Affront

Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait - Whose Summer set in Summer, till The Centuries of June And Centuries of August cease And Consciousness - is Noon.”

Years Waiting Perfect Consciousness Sun Century Summer Seasons Cease Zone Perpetual Constructs June August Noon Solstice

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.”

Years Next Interest Pay Sun Sky Land Wind Taxes Summer Credit Seeds Dust Yellow Agony Again And Again Harvest Crops Bankers Next Year No Money Barren Prairie Scorching

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.”

Mean Country Play Running Remember Games Sun Summer Balls Gloves Country Love Summer Sun

Author:Grantland Rice

“Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.”

Humans Heart Kind Stills Earth Sun Gone Air Sky Mines Wind Bears Promise Summer Rain Fairs East Planes Leafs Human Heart Thyself Lofty Frost Zephyr

Book:Poems: With a Memoir

Source: Poems: With a Memoir

“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.”

Morning Sun Influence Summer Triumph Warmth Cheer Delicious Hints Freshness Lingering Coolness Warmth Of The Sun

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.”

Ifs Doe War Young White Sun Wife Hair Return Husband Summer Shining Soldier Consulting Oracles Hay Sun Shines White Hair Young Wife

Author:Aristophanes

“The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they were clearing out big contracts for salary-cap relief and a chance to start over again the following summer. We are taking a step backward in the immediate run, .. But we're certainly looking forward to the future.”

“Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.”

Long Stills Self Voice Silence Sun Summer Mirrors Ghost Long Ago Remembrance Trails Splendor Departed Primeval

Author:Bayard Taylor

“When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.”

Heart Father Sun Summer Spring Coming Out

Author:Gladys Taber

“Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.”

May Eye Song Sun Sea Sky Mines Flower Summer Bird Breaths Blessed Southern Breeze Simplest Crystals Flocks Brooks Azure Greening Minnows Halcyon Days

Book:The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

Source: The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

“[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.”

Heart Light Water Hours Break Sun Magic Produce Summer Miracle Rising Venice Daybreak

Author:Peggy Guggenheim

“At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.”

Way Sun Summer Blue Edges Far Away Bees Unimportant Goats Wildflowers Birdsong Grazing

Author:Alison Croggon

“Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.”

“And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.”

Moments Fighting Three Stars Sun Sea Summer Down And Fifty

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry?”

Ifs Giving Lying Stars Sun Wind Summer Immortal Autumn What If

Book:100 Selected Poems

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it?”

Knows Long I Can Enjoy Sun Summer These Days

Author:Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

“I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings.”

Made Together Lasts Morning Sun Gone Taken Sky Summer Wings Fingers Flight Aviation Last Time Farewell Coming Back Vibrations Docile Supple Meticulous Raf

Author:Pierre Clostermann

“Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.”

Thinking Men Age Given Sun Middle Flower Bed Summer Hot Middle Ages Weeping Mint Lavender Marigolds

Book:Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.”

Earth Left Sun Fire Blood Wind Summer Mouths Red Wine Shining Lips Cups Grass Ran Flames Print Lions Eastern Drank Bosoms Poppies Flapping

Book:God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty

Source: God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty

“Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?”

Long Home Sun Week Cost Summer Nuclear Holiday Weekend Immense Festivals Headache Nuclear Families Family Holiday Long Weekend

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.”

Light Sun Fields Kissing Summer Evening Wheat Haze Wheat Fields

Author:Beth Orton

“In winter, play with the snow; in summer, play with the Sun! Do not wait for something to come; everything is already here! In autumn, play with the leaves, in spring, play with the flowers! In summer, don't wait for the winter; in winter, don't wait for the summer! Everything is already here, in this present time you live in!”

Play Waiting Sun Flower Summer Spring Winter Snow Autumn Present Time

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I had one job that was kind of cop-like. One summer I did security at a miniature golf course. Just standing out in the sun all day, Hey, hey, excuse me sir. Get your putter out of the whale's ass. Come on, this is a place of miniature business. This is not a playground even though it looks like a playground.”

Looks Kind Jobs Courses Sun Security Summer Standing Golf Excuse Ass Hey Cop Standing Out Whales Golf Course Playgrounds Excuse Me Miniatures

Author:Dane Cook

“I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.”

Whole Hands Felt Sun Summer Clarity Clarity Of Thought

Author:DJ Spooky

“I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!”

People Children Long Stills Lying Literature Enjoy Sun Stupid Summer Silly Weather My Children Long Day Silly People

Author:Danielle Steel

“Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.”

Sun Summer Friendly Vegetarian Vegan Vitamins Mushrooms Exposing Summer Sun Vitamin D

Author:Paul Stamets

“Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. They are gaunt, mean shadows that bite the ground like teeth. As the sun nears the horizon, its benevolent yellow begins to deepen, to become infected, until it glares an angry inflamed orange. It throws a variegated glow over the horizon.”

Mean Form Sun Tree Sky Summer Shadow Angry Clouds Teeth Fats Horizon Bites Yellow Thick Orange Benevolent Breadth Glare

Book:Salem's Lot

Source: Salem's Lot

“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”

Source: The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel

“nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.”

World Littles Night Sun Sea Wind Summer Rain Blue Winter Islands Summer And Winter Blue Sea

Book:The little island

Source: The little island

“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.”

Nature Sun Summer Laughter Lovely Hills Grass Laughed Breathless Windy Summer Sun Sun Kissed

Author:Rupert Brooke

“O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)”

Men Earth Joy Night Dies Sun Summer Men And Women Longing Dusk Summer Nights Earth And Sun

Author:William Ernest Henley

“With each spring comes new life, energy and green growth. In summer comes the sun, warm, kind and enduring. Fall brings its canvas of color in careful, gentle change. Winter brews into faithful strength, beauty in pure white. And then comes you. You are all that Nature offers, a blessing, a gift.. You are the fifth season.”

Kind Fall Energy Growth White Sun Color Blessing Offers Pure Summer Spring Seasons Green Endure Winter Careful Warm Gentle Faithful Canvas New Life Fifth

Book:The Wednesday Letters: A Novel

Source: The Wednesday Letters: A Novel

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.”

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens." [gestures to the setting sun] Anne Shirley: "Look at that. You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.”

“I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.”

“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”

Years Sun Summer Spring Winter Shade

Author:Charles Dickens

“My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.”

Source: Lolita

“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”

Source: 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

“Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s always summer in the songs. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.”

Should Beautiful Song Dies Sun Battle Summer Shining Winter Likes Knights Maids Gallant

Book: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

Source: 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

“And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." The wind stirred the leaves of the chestnut trees nearby, and the scents of late summer rose up rich around us; pine and grass and strawberries, sun-warmed stone and cool water, and the sharp, musky smell of his body next to mine. "Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith.”

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn

“In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.”

Source: Home Safe: A Novel

“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.”

Thinking Home Running Young Choices Left Sun Fire Air Middle Objects Arms Summer Standing Seasons Foolish Cruelty Shirts Chickens Finest Pondering Standing There Penguins Sun Set

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Life Is Sun Positive Pure Summer Invisible Flames Live By I Live My Life Pompous

Author:Thomas Browne