Spring Quotes
John Muir
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
3694 Victor Hugo
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
4606 Kobayashi Issa
What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
1374 Yoko Ono
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
3251 Anne Bradstreet
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."
[Meditations Divine and Moral]
2473 Vladimir Nabokov
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
4040 Ernest Hemingway
People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
2279 Elyne Mitchell
Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again
2831 Sanhita Baruah
Let it rain on some days,
Let yourself shiver on some cold nights,
So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through.
1111 Pablo Neruda
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
3222 E.E. Cummings
Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
2307 Mary Balogh
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.
1755 Shushiki
Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still...
Iris, blue each spring
1423 Jessica Stern
I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come.
2704 Roman Payne
So the nymphs they spoke,
we kissed and laid.
By noontime’s hour
our love was made.
Like braided chains of crocus stems,
we lay entwined, I laid with them.
Our breath, one glassy, tideless sea,
our bodies draping wearily,
we slept, I slept so lucidly,
with hopes to stay this memory.
1027 Cecilia Llompart
If Springtime crawls out of the
wild mouths of flowers, then
surely, Winter crawls out of mine.
4496 Percy Bysshe Shelley
And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
1970 Carew Papritz
Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.
3531 Marty Rubin
The deep roots never doubt spring will come.
2227 Cecilia Llompart
Winter is already a lost shape, forgotten
in the ground. Instead, here is Spring
with all the grace of a woman
smoothing out her apron.
3924 Frances Hodgson Burnett
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...
2505 Anthony Doerr
Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We’d pass out every time we saw - actually saw - a flower. Imagine if we only got to see a cumulonimbus cloud or Cassiopeia or a snowfall once a century: there’d be pandemonium in the streets. People would lie by the thousands in the fields on their backs.
3771 Margaret Atwood
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
4566 Erin Hanson
Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it's not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don't deserve my spring.
4413 Phar West Nagle
Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.
3480 Caitlin Rush
A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right.
2502 Stefanie Brook Trout
Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.
3486 Jessica Stern
My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264
2619 Adalbert Stifter
While they were speaking of - in their opinion - great things, around about them only little things - also in their opinion - were happening: everywhere the bushes were turning green, the brooding earth was germinating and beginning to play with her first little Spring creatures, as one might with jewels.
4330 Jeffrey R. Anderson
When spring knocks at your door, regardless of the time of year or season of our lives, run, do not walk to that door, throw it open with wild abandon, and say, "Yes! Yes, come in! Do me, and do me big!
3003 Elizabeth Goudge
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
4802 Pamela Morsi
They say sweethearts and squabbles are like flowers and rain. Takes both to make it springtime.
2565 Eileen Granfors
Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . "
Spring Flight
3723 Knut Hamsun
But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.
2204 Vera Nazarian
Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.
Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.
But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.
1362 Angela Carter
At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.
2402 Kristin Kimball
It's not the deprivations of winter that get you, or the damp of spring, but the no-man's land between.
3018 Jessica Stern
Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.
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