“The smell of the grass, the taste of the rain, the feeling that anything was possible.” — Margaret Mitchell · Gone with the Wind
“In the summer I lie loosely in the grass and listen to the silence that moves.” — Eudora Welty · The Eye of the Story
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is stirring in the greenness underneath.” — William Carlos Williams · Spring and All
“The summer I was fifteen I felt alive all the way down to my toenails.” — Joyce Carol Oates · Bellefleur
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon. To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” — Henry James · Edith Wharton's memoir, A Backward Glance