52 Summer Letter Board Quotes That Capture the Season Perfectly

Summer has a vibe that’s hard to put into words.

But somehow, a few letters on a board can say it all.

Funny, sweet, or a little sentimental. It just works.

If you’re looking for the right words to set the mood, these summer letter board quotes have you covered.

Summer Letter Board Quotes

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” — Henry James

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?” — John Steinbeck

“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink in the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” — William Shakespeare

“Then followed that beautiful season — Summer. Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.” — Deb Caletti

“To see the summer sky is poetry, though never in a book it lie.” — Emily Dickinson

“In summer, the song sings itself.” — William Carlos Williams

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” — Wallace Stevens

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” — Charles Bowden

“Summer just opens the door and lets you out.” — Deb Caletti

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” — Maud Hart Lovelace

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.” — Langston Hughes

“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” — John Burroughs

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” — Pablo Neruda

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” — William Shakespeare

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” — Yoko Ono

“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer — its dust and lowering skies.” — Toni Morrison

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.” — Diane Ackerman

“Early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes and every sunset is different.” — John Steinbeck

“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch, summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.” — Harper Lee

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” — Jenny Han

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” — L.M. Montgomery

“Summer was a book of hope.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” — Sam Keen

“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” — Jeannette Walls

“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” — C. Day Lewis

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” — Sylvia Plath

“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” — Kellie Elmore

“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” — Kellie Elmore

“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.” — Debasish Mridha

“There is summertime in every good soul.” — Anonymous

“Every summer has a story.” — Anonymous

“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.” — Anonymous

“Summer — the season we always think will last forever.” — Lucius Londinium

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.” — E.B. White

“Bees do have a smell, you know, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” — Ray Bradbury

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” — Patricia Briggs

“Summer has a flavor like nothing else. Always fresh and simmering, ready to invite you for a lemonade.” — Viola Shipman

“I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” — John Keats

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.” — Regina Brett

“The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn.” — Terri Guillemets

“The golden afternoons of September are a mellow reminder that summer’s almost gone, but the next one arrives in nine months.” — Claire Costa

“I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” — Isabelle Eberhardt

“Summer lasted forever when I was seven, but now it only visits.” — Sonya Hartnett

“In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.” — Mungo Jerry

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver

“There is something about summer days that makes them memorable long after winter returns.” — Betty Smith