“Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!”
Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918)
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John Galsworthy48
English novelist and playwright 1867–1933Related quotes
“The summer grasses—
For many brave warriors
The aftermath of dreams.”
Bashō Matsuo book Oku no Hosomichi
夏草や<br>兵どもが<br>夢の跡 <br class="br">natsukusa ya<br>tsuwamonodomo ga<br>yume no ato <br class="br">Donald Keene, Travelers of a Hundred Ages, New York, 1999, p. 316 (Translation: Donald Keene) <br class="br">The summer grasses—<br>Of brave soldiers' dreams<br>The aftermath. <br class="br">Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to Oku, Tokyo, 1996, p. 87 (Translation: Donald Keene) <br class="br">Also: Classical Japanese Database, Translation #222 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/222 <br class="br">Oku no Hosomichi
“Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Now and Forever
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter
“I hear always the sad voices
of summer
passing like red winged birds
over the high grass”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
Red Winged Birds (1917)
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Variant: summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.