The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

—Wallace Stevens

On the idle hill of summer, / Sleepy with the flow of streams, / Far I hear the steady drummer / Drumming like a noise in dreams.

 —A.E. Housman

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

 —Russell Baker

In a far recess of summer / Monks are playing soccer.

 —John Ashberry

Here, in front of the summer hotel, the beach waits like an altar.

 —Anne Sexton

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

 —Mark Twain

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the most beautiful words in the English language.

 —Edith Wharton

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to the repaid next January.

 —Hal Borland

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; Warm southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie light, lie light — Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.

 —Robert Richardson

The bigger the summer vacation, the harder the fall.

 —anonymous

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 Chekhov

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

—John Lubbock

Ripe was the drowsy hour; / The blissful cloud of summer-indolence / Benumb’d my eyes.

 —John Keats

It will not always be summer: build barns.

 —Hesiod