Spring Quotes - Page 12

• The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

  Shannon Hale

  Night, Light, Snow

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.202, A&C Black

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• Hope springs eternal.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

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• Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
  Lies open, writ in blossoms.

  William Allingham

  Lying, Book, Joyous

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

  John Milton

  Book, Men, Dragons

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

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• August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, August, Focus

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• Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
  We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

  Babur

  Wisdom, Islamic, Eye

  Babur (Emperor of Hindustan), Wheeler McIntosh Thackston (2002). “The Baburnama: memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor”, Modern Library

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• If there were no
  cherry blossoms
  in this world
  How much more tranquil
  our hearts would be in spring.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Heart, Would Be, World

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  There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

  Dante Alighieri

  Speak, Gentle

  Dante Alighieri, “There Is A Gentle Thought”

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• Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Hurt, Healing

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• His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Rocks, Depth

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1035, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

  Henry Williamson

  Water, Spring Water, Icicles

  Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• The muddy rivers of spring
  Are snarling
  Under the muddy skies.
  The mind is muddy.

  Wallace Stevens

  Rivers, Sky, Mind

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• A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

  George Jean Nathan

  Dog, Stars, Real

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Reality, Comedy, Impossible

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

  Henry Beston

  Quality, Social, Midsummer

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Laughter, Rain

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winter, Thinking, Destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.980, Delphi Classics

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• Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness—to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

  John Keats

  Summer, Dream, Autumn

  John Keats (1847). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.244

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• If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, Flow, Helpers

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• Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Beautiful, Sweet, Smell

  Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”

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• Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between, To prove that worth is ever green. The little blue Forget-me-not... Spring’s messenger in every spot, Smiling on all—"Remember me!

  John Clare

  Blue, Ivy, Heaven

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• A vivid color blocked tunic dress sets the perfect tone for Spring.

  Lubov Azria

  Color, Perfect, Dresses

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• There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.

  Confucius

  Flower, Immaturity, Doe

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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