“I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.”
Johnny Cash
more infosource: Larry King Live, CNN, November 26, 2002.
category: black, blue, color, fashion, musician, summer
medium: Interview
“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill…the boys of summer, running.”
Ray Bradbury
more infosource: Dandelion Wine (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), 21.
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category: boys, childhood, summer
medium: Fiction
“Heat, like an article of invisible clothing, makes us want to take it off.”
Fernando Pessoa
more infosource: The Book of Disquiet (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991), 43.
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category: heat, summer, weather
medium: Autobiography
“…and because the light will enlarge your days, your dreams at night will be as strange as the jars of octopus you saw once in a fisherman’s boat under the summer moon…”
Robert Hass
more infosource: “Late Spring,” in A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (New York: Harcourt Bracy & Company), 27.
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category: dream, fisherman, light, moon, summer
medium: poetry
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“There is no word in the language for end-of-summer sadness, but the human spirit has a word for it and picks up the first sound of its approach.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Cold Weather,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 349.
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category: human spirit, language, melancholy, sadness, summer, words
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in January 1943.
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James
more infosource: recounted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance (New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934), 249.
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category: afternoon, beautiful description, English, language, summer
medium: autobiography
via: Fannie Bushin“It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer’s vacation than they do planning the rest of their lives.”
Patricia Fripp
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