Spring Quotes - Page 5

• April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

  Hal Borland

  Keeping Promises, May, Kept Promises

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Rain, Flower, Moving

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• It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

  John Galsworthy

  Men, May, Arms

  John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.114, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Lying, Flower

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Flower, Winter

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, April, Idiot

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Morning, Memories, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.520, Delphi Classics

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• The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Reflection, Air

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.200, Vintage

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• In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Anniversary, Nature, Men

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Air, Snow, Littles

  Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.199

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• Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

  Bill Nye

  Winter, Long, Lap

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• O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Winter, Clouds, Air

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

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• Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sweet, Flower, Garden

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• In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
  In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Change, Flower, Men

  "Locksley Hall" l. 20 (1842)

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• I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  School, Play, Snow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Winter, Garden, Forever

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• I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.

  Christopher Meloni

  Fall, Feelings, Sensuality

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• She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

  Marquis de Sade

  Flower, Rose, Different

  marquis de Sade (1963). “De Sade Quartet [four Stories from Cortes Et Fabliaux”

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• Spring makes everything look filthy.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Looks, April, Complaints

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• O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
  Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn
  Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
  Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
  
  The hills tell each other, and the listening
  Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
  Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
  And let thy holy feet visit our clime.
  
  Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
  Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste
  Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
  Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  William Blake

  Morning, Eye, Angel

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

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• I don't believe the half I hear,
  Nor the quarter of what I see!
  But I have one faith, sublime and true,
  That nothing can shake or slay;
  Each spring I firmly believe anew
  All the seed catalogues say!

  Carolyn Wells

  Believe, Sublime, Half

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• Well-apparel'd April on the heel
  Of limping Winter treads.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, April, Apparel

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.82

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• How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.

  Sara Teasdale

  Hurt, Flower, White

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.1, Рипол Классик

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• When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces,
  The mother of months in meadow or plain
  Fills the shadows and windy places
  With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Mother, Rain, Winter

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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