August

August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. It is a summer month in the Northern Hemisphere, and a winter month in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

Quotes

 * Why should this Negro insolently stride Down the red noonday on such noiseless feet? Piled in his barrow, tawnier than wheat, Lie heaps of smouldering daisies, sombre-eyed, Their copper petals shriveled up with pride, Hot with a superfluity of heat, Like a great brazier borne along the street By captive leopards, black and burning pied. Are there no water-lilies, smooth as cream, With long stems dripping crystal? Are there none Like those white lilies, luminous and cool, Plucked from some hemlock-darkened northern stream By fair-haired swimmers, diving where the sun Scarce warms the surface of the deepest pool?
 * Elinor Wylie, "August" in Nets to Catch the Wind (1921)

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.


 * The August cloud *  *  *  suddenly Melts into streams of rain.
 * William Cullen Bryant, Sella.


 * In the parching August wind, Cornfields bow the head, Sheltered in round valley depths,  On low hills outspread.
 * Christina G. Rossetti, A Year's Windfalls, Stanza 8.


 * Dead is the air, and still! the leaves of the locust and walnut Lazily hang from the boughs, inlaying their intricate outlines Rather on space than the sky -on a tideless expansion of slumber.
 * Bayard Taylor, Home Pastorals, August.