여름이 시작하는 첫 날에 아름다운 여름 글과 꽃과 함께... (Summer quotes, flowers and music)

 

 

 

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon;

to me those have always been the two most beautiful words

in the English language.

― Henry James

   

오늘이 일년 중 낮이 제일 길다는 Summer Solstice 날이다.

위도가 높은 지역에 북반부에 위치한 우리 동네는

겨울이 유난히 길고 춥기도 하고, 밤의 길이도 엄청 긴 반면에

여름철의 낮의 길이는 하루에 17시간 반에 달한다.

정작  밤 10시 10분 경에 해가 지지만,

밤 11시 반이 넘어야 어두워진다.

하지만 여름 밤하늘 한쪽은 훤해서

요즘은 한 밤중에도 여명이 남아 있어서

백야 현상을 맞이하기도 한다.

북반부에 살다 보면 제일 반가운 날이 낮이 제일 긴 오늘이기도 하지만,

오늘부터 다시 낮이 짧아진다는 사실에

서서히 겨울을 준비해야 한다는 현실이 그리 반갑지만은 않기도 하다.

찬란하고 소중한 여름의 시작인 Summer solstice 날에

길고 긴 일조량 덕분에 하루가 다르게 다투듯이

우리집 마당에서 경쟁을 하듯이 숨가쁘게 피는 화사한 꽃들과 함께

아름다운 여름 글과 노래를 모아 봅니다.

 

 

A life without love

is like a year without summer.

~Swedish Proverb

 

 

 

“I almost wish we were butterflies

and liv’d but three summer days

– three such days with you I could fill with more delight

than fifty common years could ever contain.

― John Keats

 

 

“One must maintain a little bittle of summer,

even in the middle of winter.”

― Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,

just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that

life was beginning over again with the summer.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

 

“What good is the warmth of summer,

without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

 ― John Steinbeck

 

 

“I know I am but summer to your heart,

and not the full four seasons of the year.”

― Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

 

 

“One swallow does not make a summer,

neither does one fine day;

similarly one day or brief time of happiness

does not make a person entirely happy.”

― Aristotle

 

 

“Green was the silence,

wet was the light,

the month of June trembled

like a butterfly.”

― Pablo Neruda

 

 

 

"August rain: the best of the summer gone,

and the new fall not yet born.

The odd uneven time."

―Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  

 

 

 

“That familiar conviction

that life was beginning over again

with the summer.”

― F Scott Fitzgerald

 

 

“Why is summer mist romantic

and autumn mist just sad?”

― Dodie Smith

 

 

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

― William Shakespeare

 

 

 People don’t notice

whether it’s winter or summer

when they’re happy.

~Anton Chekhov

 

 

 The summer night

is like a perfection of thought.

~Wallace Stevens

 

 

 People don’t notice

whether it’s winter or summer

when they’re happy.

~Anton Chekhov

 

 

The short summer night.

The dream and real

Are same things.

- Kyoshi

 

 

 

Deep summer is

when laziness finds respectability.

~Sam Keen

 

 

 In summer,

the song sings itself.

~William Carlos Williams

 

 

 

“The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight

as though freshly painted;

the cloudless sky smiled at itself

in the smoothly sparkling lake,

the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally

in a gentle breeze:

June had arrived.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 

 

 

“It’s summer and time for wandering…”

― Kellie Elmore

 

 

There shall be eternal summer

in the grateful heart.

~Celia Thaxter

 

 

"Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;

And left the flushed print in a poppy there:

Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,

And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame."

―Francis Thompson, "The Poppy"

 

 

The peony flower scattered

And accumulated

A few of the petals.

- Buson

 

 

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee –
~Emily Dickinson, c.1879

 

 

The summer moon.

There are a lot of paper lanterns

On the street.

- Shiki

 

 

 

"When people went on vacation,

they shed their home skins,

thought they could be a new person."

―Aimee Friedman, Sea Change

 

 

 Mountain-rose petals
Falling, falling, falling now...
Waterfall music

- Basho

 

 

 “some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems.” 
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

 

 

 “The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms.

Everything is more beautiful

when they have passed.”
― Madame Necker

 

"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, The Use Of Life

In the depth of winter,

I finally learned that within me

there lay an invincible summer.

~Albert Camus

 

개인적으로 가장 좋아하는 사랑영시이자 여름을 노래한

셰익스피어의 소네트 18번을 현재적인 감성으로 재즈풍으로

스웨덴 작곡가 Nils Lindberg가 작곡한 이 곡은

3주 전에 국제 합창 페스티발 때에 공연한 작품으로

오늘 다시 감상해 보면서

여름을 반갑게 맞이해 봅니다.

                   

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day - SYC Ensemble Singers 

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?    

By William Shakespeare          

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.