Summer Quotes Quotes

“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.”
― Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

“The summer in you
calms the winter in me.”
― Saiber, The Summer in You

“It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip

“here's the thing about wildflowers
they take root wherever they are
grow strong through the wind, rain, pain, sunshine, blue skies and starless nights
they dance, even when it seems there is nothing worth dancing for
they bloom
with or without you”
― Alisha Christensen, Still Growing Wildflowers

“i am permanently
tanned
in the summer of poetry.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slant of yellow light.”
― Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

“Count your summers, not your winters.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“End of summer
comes falling like a waterfall of midnight stars
and I'm crawling out of this
nymphal skeleton
leaving you
like cicada do”
― Alisha Christensen, The Lovers

“sunlight
dances on my skin
like fingertips
feet
rooting in the earth as she whispers
you are read
even though it hurts
--blooming”
― Alisha Christensen, Still Growing Wildflowers

“Winter is copper, autumn is bronze, spring is silver, and summer is gold.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A warm winter is better than a cold summer.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Early summer is a powerful season of fire, which makes it a good time to burn what has served its purpose. Destruction can be healthy and wise.”
― Ahriana Platten, Ph.D

“If I don't make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!”
― April Mae Monterrosa

“Ha! no more dirges for the dead summer—and here,the shrills of that unpleasant months over, and new leaves start to shiver;as the winter smiled in her foggy bath!”
― Nithin Purple, Venus and Crepuscule

“Shall I compare thee to a Wintercearig day?”
― Rainbow Harvest

“There couldn't be a better way of experiencing a beautiful day other than by treasuring each moment.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“I know things might not work,' I said. 'And I know it's scary, but the things that are worth it are. It feels right.' [. . . ] It was like swimming under the stars, like sleeping outside, like climbing a tree in the dark and seeing the view. It was scary and safe and peaceful and exciting, all at the same time.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“With school over for the year, and days that stretched as long as our country lane-ways, we enjoyed a pure and joyful freedom, an elusive state of complete happiness, one that some would fail to recapture, ever again, in our all-too-brief time on this Earth.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Comfort

“Summer love songs wake up inert energies.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

“20 June Y.W.-Q.M.D

Dear Filbert,
It's been quite a week here on Mount Gawdforsaken — today it is perishingly hot, windless, quiet as a tomb, lush and pretty. Every floral unit has its pistil aprick and petals atremble in a truly shameless fashion, for the bees are about. The whole hill hums drowsily...

The paucity of decibels here is due in part to all six A-teams' departure yesterday for Milan...”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Let winter be like winter, and summer be like summer! A winter that doesn't act like winter, a summer that doesn't act like summer, is fake, just like a person who acts differently than his own character!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“i’ll try everything under the sun / i’ll swear this time i’m done / the seasons can’t hurt me / but the summer heat makes me feel dirty”
― Arabella Leyla, Nothings: A Poetry Collection

“i’ll beg against it, but it melts, / fades for the last time / that's when i became a mime / i used to have a trust / but this happens everytime / come back to me, i used to beg, / but it leaves till the end of the year / leaving me residing in summer’s impending fear / for some reason when i was young i grew accustomed / to white ground and the frigidness of being someone stubborn”
― Arabella Leyla