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There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

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There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

—Charles Morgan

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

 —Bern Williams

If the state of oratory that inundates our educational systems in the month of June could be transformed into rain for southern California, we should all be happily awash or waterlogged.

—Samuel Gould

A noise like of a hidden brook, / In the leafy month of June, / That to the sleeping woods all night / Singeth a quiet tune.

 —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And let them pass, as they will too soon, / With the bean flowers’ boon, / And the blackbirds’ tune, / And May and June!

 —Robert Browning

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

 —Aldo Leopold

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

 —Gertrude Jekyll

How dreary — to be — somebody! How public — like a frog — to tell your name — the livelong June — to an admiring bog!

—Emily Dickinson

And what is so rare as a day in June? /  Then, if ever, come perfect days; / Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, / And over it softly her warm ear lays.

 —James Russell Lowell

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

—Al Bernstein

Oh , my luve’s like a red, red rose / That’s newly sprung in June/ Oh, my luve’s like the melodie / That’s sweetly played in tune.

 —Robert Burns

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