“We must admit, spring is annoying, summer is not ours, autumn is best — and winter is New England’s truesy weather.’’

— Donald Hall (1928-2018), poet and essayist, in Here at Eagle Pond, inspired by his life on his ancestral farm in Wilmot, N.H.

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.’’

— Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878) from her Poems. She was an American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe. She was born and died in Providence.