Spring Quotes - Page 11

• Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.

  Dylan Thomas

  Bulbs, Doom

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Desire, Unrest

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.9, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The world's favorite season is the spring.
  All things seem possible in May.

  Edwin Way Teale

  World, May, All Things

  Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”

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• Spring is a true reconstructionist.

  Henry Timrod

  May

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.49

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• Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

  Henry Rollins

  Preparation, Heat, Oppression

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• The bed of flowers
  Loosens amain,
  The beauteous snowdrops
  Droop o'er the plain.
  The crocus opens
  Its glowing bud,
  Like emeralds others,
  Others, like blood.
  With saucy gesture
  Primroses flare,
  And roguish violets,
  Hidden with care;
  And whatsoever
  There stirs and strives,
  The Spring's contented,
  If works and thrives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Glowing, Blood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.2888, Delphi Classics

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• Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.

  Marcel Proust

  Flower, Kissing, Together

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• I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

  John J. Geddes

  Night, Snow, Sound

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• I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Fun, Ghetto

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• O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations,
  May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart,
  I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses
  Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart.

  Louis Aragon

  Summer, Heart, Clouds

  Louis Aragon (1945). “Aragon: Poet of the French Resistance”

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• So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Winter, Cold

  "Fictional character: Gríma Wormtongue". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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• Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences.

  Charley Harper

  Distance, Air, Long

  Charley Harper (1994). “Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper”, Flower Valley Pr

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• The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Cuckoos, Pieces, Clockwork

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• A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is now people know you. The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it's a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can't be knocked down. Your name is who you are and how you're known even when you do something great or something dumb.

  Rita Williams-Garcia

  Names, People, Dumb

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• How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Butterfly, Sunset

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.103, Bantam

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• True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Patriotic, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Memories, Lying

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.117, New York Review of Books

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• You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Training, Naked

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• It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Autumn, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.664, Library of America

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• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Night, Sky

  "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" l. 1 (1881)

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• There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  Sara Teasdale

  War, Rain, Night

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

  Dante Alighieri

  Roots, Age, Golden

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.252, Univ of California Press

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• Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.

  Penelope Trunk

  Moving, Where You Are, Who You Are

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• Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!

  J. Christopher Stevens

  Eye, Ice, Joy

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• There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

  Sylvia Day

  Lying, Waiting, Ruins

  Sylvia Day (2014). “Sylvia Day Crossfire Novels 1-4”, p.235, Penguin

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