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Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night! -- Walt Whitman |
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A life without love is like a year without summer. -- Swedish Proverb |
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. -- Anton Chekhov |
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In summer, the song sings itself.
-- William Williams |
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Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne. -- Barry Cornwall |
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
-- Wallace Stevens |
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One swallow does not make a summer.
-- Aristotle |
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I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there. -- John Cheney |
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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 |
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In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky Refuses ae weep drap o' rain To Nature parched and dry, The genial night, wi' balmy breath, Gars verdue, spring anew, An' ilka blade o' grass Keps its ain drap o' dew.
-- James Ballantine |
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There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
-- Celia Thaxter |
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