Springtime Quotes - Page 11

• I wonder if the sap is stirring yet,
  If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate,
  If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun
  And crocus fires are kindling one by one:
  Sing robin, sing:
  I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Spring, Fire

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.122, Delphi Classics

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• But (Peresphone) was like, the goddess of flowers." Grover looked offended. "Springtime.

  Rick Riordan

  Flower, Goddess, Grover

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Bird, Comes And Goes

  Arthur Miller (1996). “Death of a Salesman: Revised Edition”, p.64, Penguin

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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

  Spring, Yesterday, Miracle

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• It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Spring, Twilight, People

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Just now the lilac is in bloom
  All before my little room.

  Rupert Brooke

  Spring, Littles, Rooms

  1914 and Other Poems (1915) "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"

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• Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.

  George Herbert

  Spring, May, Spring Season

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

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• And you're headed to a place with no bath and no shower. So you can just imagine how crazy it is to get up there, take your diaper off, have a urine-soaked crotch, and all you can do is wet a washcloth and wipe your skin off. You also have to do it on landing and spacewalks, too. It's not a ride that makes you springtime fresh.

  Mike Mullane

  Crazy, Skins, Wipe

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Heart, Would Be, World

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• Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Love, Simple, Feelings

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• It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.

  Thomas Hardy

  Powerful, Spring, Moving

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.119, e-artnow

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• The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

  Charles Lloyd

  Age, Kicking, Alive

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

  Ken Burns

  Autumn, Years, Facts

  "Baseball". Documentary, History, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Flower, Being Sad, Just Being

  Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.301, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Li Po, “Green Mountain”

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