Quotes About June
The stuff of vacations and verse
June is the month when we get ready for a long, hot summer — and wonder where the first half of the year went. There’s a lot to love about June: longer days, warmer nights, and ushering in vacation season. June is also the inspiration for many beautiful quotes, and the following are some of them.
1. “A dripping June sets all in tune.” -English proverb
2. “A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. “O, my Luve’s like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune.” -Robert Burns
4. “June comes in with roses in her hand, but very often with a thick shawl on her shoulders, and a bad cold in her head.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
5. “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.” -James Russell Lowell
6. “June the month of months Flowers and fruitage brings too, When green trees spread shadiest boughs, When each wild bird sings too.” -Christina Rossetti
7. “What is one to say about June — the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade?” -Gertrude Jekyll
8. “Ah! how sweet to seem, love, Drugged and half aswoon With this luscious dream, love, In the heart of June.” -James Whitcomb Riley
9. “June had drawn out every leaf on the trees.” -Virginia Woolf
10. “If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.” -Bernard Williams
11. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” -John Steinbeck
12. “In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.” -Aldo Leopold
13. “June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.” -Joan D. Chittister
14. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” -Al Bernstein 15. “June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.” -A.E. Housman
16. “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” -Pablo Neruda
17. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” -Maud Hart Lovelace
18. “How softly runs the afternoon Beneath the billowy clouds of June!” -Charles Hanson Towne
19. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery
20. “All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.” -Robert Browning 21. “At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.” -Edgar Allan Poe
22. “There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.” -Charles Morgan
23. “There are two seasons when the leaves are in their glory, their green and perfect youth in June and this their ripe old age.” -Henry David Thoreau
24. “And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.” -Abba Woolson
25. “June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children’s hands with posies.” -Sara Coleridge
26. “It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.” -Mark Twain
27. “June is bright with roses gay, Harebells bloom around her feet.” -Dora Goodale
28. “No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.” -James Russell Lowell
29. “I have laughed more than daffodils and cried more than June.” -Sanober Khan
30. “Do not the bright June roses blow to meet thy kiss at morning hours?” -William C. Bryant
31. “It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes And pleasant scents the noses.” -Nathaniel Parker Willis
32. “June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o’er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.” -Lucy Larcom
33. “This is June, the month of grass and leaves…already the aspens are trembling again, and a new summer is offered me.” -Henry David Thoreau
34. “Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I’ve looked at love that way.” -Joni Mitchell
35. “June is the gateway to summer.” -Jean Hersey
36. “To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
37. “I know well that the June rains just fall.” -Onitsura
38. “May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it’s time for work to begin.” -H. Peter Loewer
39. “It is June. I am tired of being brave.” -Anne Sexton
40. “Summer makes a silence after spring.” -Vita Sackville-West
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