Summer Heat Wave

Famous quotes containing the words summer, heat and/or wave:

“Unloved, that beech will gather brown,
This maple burn itself away;

Unloved, the sun-flower, shining fair,
Ray round with flames her disk of seed,
And many a rose-carnation feed
With summer spice the humming air;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“And suddenly, to be dying
Is not a little or mean or cheap thing,
Only wearying, the heat unbearable ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)