- “Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” —Henry James
- “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” —C. Day Lewis
- “I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.” —Jack McBrayer
- “It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” —Anna Godbersen
- “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” —Wallace Stevens
- “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” —Charles Bowden