Epitaph for his daughter, Olivia Susan Clemens (1896), this is actually a slight adaptation of the poem "Annette" by Robert Richardson; more details are available at "The Poem on Susy Clemens' Headstone" http://www.twainquotes.com/headstone.html
Misattributed
“It was a perfect summer night. So good, it was true.”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 48
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“Night came—the deep and purple time
Of summer in a southern clime.”
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”
Source: The Wizard Heir
“The starry brocade of the summer night
Is linked to us as part of our estate”
"Tomorrow"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: The starry brocade of the summer night
Is linked to us as part of our estate;
And every bee that wings its sidelong flight
Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.
“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”
Fragment 67
Numbered fragments
“Driven through by her own sword,
summer died last night, alone.”
Have One On Me (2010)