Checkered Quote by John Milton

“We'll talk of sunshine and of song, And summer days, when we were young; Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days…

— William Wordsworth

“Sunlight was everywhere, glittering gold off the bright green leaves of the garden. A blackcap, concealed within the foliage of a nearby willow, sang…

— Kate Morton

“It rattled into the station like it was coming from another century. The interior lights cast a half-hearted glow over the nocturnal flotsam in…

— Amor Towles

“returned to sow the valley. In the communal dining hall, they sing joyfully. They dance through the night, into the light of dawn.”

— Ari Shavit

“With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city. Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.

— Anonymous

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

— Judith Viorst

While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is set to…

— John Clare

And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the…

— Lord Dunsany

“It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court, lit by…

— Kenneth Grahame

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

— Virginia Woolf

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

— William Butler Yeats