The Last Word

Sunday, August 5, 2007

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
–Albert Camus

One swallow does not make a summer.
–Aristotle

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
–Celia Thaxter

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

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
–John Burroughs

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn’t it? We can’t let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!
–Takayuki Ikkaku

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

In summer, the song sings itself.
–William Carlos Williams

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
–Russel Baker

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

Oh, the summer night has a smile of light and she sits on a sapphire throne.
–Barry Cornwall

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
–Sam Keen

Summer has set in with its usual severity.
–Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes are never as cool as they pretend to be.
–Nora Ephron
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s,
My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
–T.S Eliot
There’s beauty in the silver singing river, There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love’s eyes.
–Bob Dylan

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

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
You’ll wish that summer could always be here.
–Nat King Cole

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
–Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A life without love is like a year without summer.
–Old Swedish Proverb

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals--apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
–Mark Twain

Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I’m glad I came, but just the same, I must be going! I’ll stay a week or two, I’ll stay the summer through, but I am telling you, I must be going!
–Morrie Ryskind

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
–Edgar Allan Poe

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