Summer Nights

Famous quotes containing the words summer nights, summer and/or nights:

    “Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
    The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
    Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
    Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “In that open field
    If you do not come too close, if you do not come too close,
    On a summer midnight, you can hear the music
    Of the weak pipe and the little drum
    And see them dancing around the bonfire
    The association of man and woman
    In daunsinge, signifying matrimonie....”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “I remember
    a dream two nights ago: the voice,
    ‘the artist must
    create himself or be born again.’”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)