Summer Quotes

Now that summer is here you can finally go out and have some fun! Whether or not that is your thing, read some of these great summer quotes by famous authors.

Summer afternoon--summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

Summertime
An' the livin' is easy.
Ira Gershwin, "Summertime"

In Maine they have not a summer but a thaw.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There came a Day at Summer's full,
Entirely for me--
I thought that such were for the Saints,
Where Resurrections--be--
Emily Dickinson, "There came a Day at Summer's full,"

Inebriate of Air--am I--
And Debauchee of Dew--
Reeling--thro endless summer days--
From inns of Molten Blue--
Emily Dickinson, "I taste a liquor never brewed,"

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
James Dent

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens

In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
Ada Louise Huxtable

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen

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