Spring Quotes - Page 6

• The April rain, the April rain,
  Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
  Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
  And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;
  And in grey shawl and woodland bowers
  The cuckoo through the April rain
  Calls once again.

  Mathilde Blind

  Rain, Flower, Cuckoos

  Mathilde Blind, “April Rain”

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• When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Time, Light, Different

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• He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.

  Willis Gaylord Clark

  Green, Forests

  Willis Gaylord Clark (1851). “The literary remains of the late Willis Gaylord Clark: Including the Ollapodiana papers, The spirit of life, and a selection from his various prose and poetical writings”, p.445

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• From you have I been absent in the spring,
  When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,
  Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Proud, Youth, Spirit

  Sonnet 98

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• It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Memories, Men

  Derrick Belanger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural”, p.203, Andrews UK Limited

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• Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
  The periwinkle trails its wreath;
  And 'tis my faith that every flower
  Enjoys the air it breathes.
  
  The birds around me hopped and played,
  Their thoughts I cannot measure;
  But the least motion which they made,
  It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
  
  The budding twigs spread out their fan,
  To catch the breezy air;
  And I must think, do all I can
  That there was pleasure there.
  
  If this belief from heaven be sent,
  If such be Nature's holy plan,
  Have I not reason to lament
  What man has made of man?

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Men, Thinking

  William Wordsworth, “Written In Early Spring”

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• One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

  Aristotle

  Doe, April, Fine

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
  To-day the glint of green is there;
  Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
  I know no thing so wondrous fair,
  No miracle so strangely rare.
  I wonder what will next be there!

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Yesterday, Miracle, Green

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Sweet

  'Spring' (written 1877)

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• The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Years, Firsts, Pale

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.14

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• O Day after day we can't help growing older.
  Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
  Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
  Nor pity the flowers fallen.

  Wang Wei

  Flower, June, Years

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• When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain
  Like holy water falls upon the plain,
  'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain
  And see your harvest born.
  And sweet the little breeze of melody
  The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree,
  While the wild poppy lights upon the lea
  And blazes 'mid the corn.

  Francis Ledwidge

  Sweet, Rain, Fall

  Francis Ledwidge (1997). “The complete poems”, The Goldsmith Press Ltd

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• Welcome, wild harbinger of spring!
  To this small nook of earth;
  Feeling and fancy fondly cling,
  Round thoughts which owe their birth,
  To thee, and to the humble spot,
  Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

  Bernard Barton

  Humble, Feelings, Earth

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• Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Clouds, Sun

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 3, l. 84

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• Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

  Robert Benchley

  Writing, Soul, Literature

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• The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

  Allen Tate

  Faces, Spring Poems, New Faces

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• I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.

  Kim Deal

  Track, Albums, Records

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• So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

  Luc Ferrari

  Piano, Sound, Tape

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• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  Ted Nelson

  Wall, Ideas, Paper

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• The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.

  David Letterman

  Dog, Confused, Weather

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• Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.

  William Carlos Williams

  Naked, World, Cold

  1923 Spring and All, 'Spring and All'.

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• Showers and sunshine bring,
  Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
  To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
  And one by one the singing-birds come back.

  William C. Bryant

  Sunshine, Bird, Singing

  William Cullen Bryant, “Spring In Town”

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• The Spring is here--the delicate footed May,
  With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers,
  And with it comes a thirst to be away.
  In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flower, May, Hours

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.183

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• Late April and you are three; today
  We dug your garden in the yard.
  To curb the damage of your play,
  Strange dogs at night and the moles tunneling,
  Four slender sticks of lath stand guard
  Uplifting their thin string.
  
  So you were the first to tramp it down.
  And after the earth was sifted close
  You brought your watering can to drown
  All earth and us. But these mixed seeds are pressed
  With light loam in their steadfast rows.
  Child, we've done our best.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Uplifting, Dog, Children

  W. D. Snodgrass, “Heart's Needle”

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• The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

  Ambrose Philips

  Beauty, Flower, April

  'The First Pastoral' (1708) 'Lobbin' l. 47

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