Spring
- April is hope.--Gladys Taber (The Book of Stillmeadow)
- April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.--T. S. Eliot (The Waste Land)
- April, the angel of the months, the young
love of the year.--Vita Sackville-West ("Spring" The Garden)
- Autumn to winter, winter to spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall--
So rolls the changing year, and so we change
Motion so swift, we know not that we move.--Dinah Mulock Craik
- The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.--Harriet Ann Jacobs
- The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always inching its way forward, change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the full confidence of true arrival. Because nothing is abrupt, the beginning of spring nearly always catches us unawares. It is there before we see it; and then we can look nowhere without seeing it.--John O'Donohue (Benedictus)
- Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love.--Sitting Bull
- Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists - just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.--E. B. White ("A Report in Spring" Essays of E. B. White)
- Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.--Ellis Peters
- I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.--Robert Browning
- I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster,
Nor long summer bide so late;
And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,
For some things are ill to wait.
Jean Ingelow
- If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.--Anne Bradstreet (Meditations Divine and Moral)
- In every wood in every spring
there is a different green.--J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
- In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.--Mary Baker Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896)
- Is it so small a thing
To have enjoyed the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done.--Matthew Arnold (Empedocles on Etna)
- It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.--Ellen Glasgos (The Miller of Old Church)
- It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.--Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
- Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.--Roy R. Gilson
- No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.--Hal Borland ( Sundial of the Seasons)
- One swallow does not make a spring; neither does one fine day.--Aristotle (Nichomachean Ethics)
- An optimist is the human personification of spring.--Susan J. Bissonette (Reader's Digest)
- Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.--Rainier Maria Rilke
- Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet,
And all things are made young with your desires.--Francis Thompson ("From the Night of Forebeing")
- Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"--Robin Williams
- Spring is shoving up the front windows and resting your elbows on the sill, the sum burning your nose a little.--Ruth Wolff (A Crack in the Sidewalk)
- Spring never is Spring unless it comes too soon.--G. K. Chesterton ("The Gardner and the Guinea" A Miscellany of Men)
- Spring slides gradually into the farmer's consciousness, but on us city people it bursts with all the relish of a sudden surprise, compensating for much of what we lose.--Mrs. William Starr Dana (According to Season)
- Spring still makes spring in the mind
When sixty years are told.
Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
And we are never old.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("The World-Soul" May-Day and Other Pieces)
- Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.--Ellen Glasgow (Vein of Iron)
- Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.--Gustav Mahler
- Spring would not be spring without bird songs.--Francis M. Chapman
- Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.--Dorothy M. Richardson (Pilgrimage: the Trap)
- Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow,
How can thine heart be full of the spring?
A thousand summers are over and dead.--Algernon Charles Swinburne ("Itylus")
- The trumpet of prophecy! O wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?--Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ode to the West Wind)
- Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.--Charles Hare
- What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.--Russell Baker (Poor Russell's Almanac)
- With the coming of spring, I am calm again.--Gustav Mahler
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