“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” — Henry James · As quoted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance, 1934
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” — John Steinbeck · Travels with Charley, 1962
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” — Jeannette Walls · The Glass Castle, 2005
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” — William Shakespeare · Sonnet 18, c. 1609
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” — Maud Hart Lovelace · Betsy-Tacy, 1940
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.” — James Russell Lowell · The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848