Summer Quotes of the Day

“Summer has set in with its usual severity.”-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter, May 9, 1826, by essayist Charles Lamb. Quoted in Letters of Charles Lamb, vol. 2, ed. Alfed Ainger (1888).

“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." – Anton Chekhov

“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”—Albert Camus, “The Return to Tipasa”

“The summer wind came blowing in across the sea,
It lingered there to touch your hair and walk with me.”—“The Summer Wind,” lyrics by Johnny Mercer, melody by Henry Mayer

“Tonight, tonight the strip’s just right
I wanna blow ‘em off in my first heat
Summer’s here and the time is right
For racing in the streets.”—Bruce Springsteen, “Racing in the Streets”

“But strictly held by none, is loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To every thing on earth the compass round,
And only by one's going slightly taut
In the capriciousness of summer air
Is of the slightest bondage made aware.”—Robert Frost, “The Silken Tent”

“Summer afternoon--summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”—Henry James, quoted by friend Edith Wharton, in A Backward Glance