Cherry Blossom Summer

Famous quotes containing the words cherry, blossom and/or summer:

    “I think it was your cherry pies.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Earth that bore with joyful ease
    Hemlock for Socrates,
    Earth that blossomed and was glad
    ‘Neath the cross that Christ had,
    Shall rejoice and blossom too
    When the bullet reaches you.”
    —Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)

    “Cling with life to the maid;
    But when the surprise,
    First vague shadow of surmise
    Flits across her bosom young,
    Of a joy apart from thee,
    Free be she, fancy-free;
    Nor thou detain her vesture’s hem,
    Nor the palest rose she flung
    From her summer diadem.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)