Springtime Quotes - Page 5

• 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, Spring

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• The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

  Robert Frost (1977). “North of Boston: poems”, Dodd Mead

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• I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Nature, Spring

  "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1

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• All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

  Helen Hayes

  Dream, Spring, Winter

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• Spring in the world! And all things are made new!

  Richard Hovey

  Spring, World, April

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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• The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

  Edith Wharton

  Spring, Winter, Shining

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• The year is ended, and it only adds to my age;
  Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home.
  Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden,
  Without me, will still bear flowers.

  Su Ting

  Spring, Flower, Home

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• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

  e. e. cummings

  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• Nature's first green is gold.

  Robert Frost

  Gold, Green, Firsts

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
  Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
  Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
  Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.
  I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
  Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
  Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
  Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spring, Fire, Flames

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6168, Delphi Classics

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• Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Spring, Garden, Bud

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• The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Inspiration, Years

  "Rename April Fools' Day for the French" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com.

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• Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

  Eric Metaxas

  Wrens, Fleas, Bees

  Eric Metaxas (2012). “Wilberforce: Der Mann, der die Sklaverei abschaffte”, p.124, SCM Hänssler im SCM-Verlag

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• The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

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• Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

  Kay Boyle

  Country, Memories, Spring

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• Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
  Is hung with bloom along the bough.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Spring, Lyric Poetry

  A Shropshire Lad no. 2, l. 1 (1896)

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• If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Nature, Flower, Humility

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.24, ICS Publications

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• To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hipster, Afternoon, Literature

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• Daffodils,
  That come before the swallow dares, and take
  The winds of March with beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Wind

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 116

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• Buttercups and daisies,
  Oh, the pretty flowers;
  Coming ere the spring time,
  To tell of sunny hours.
  When the trees are leafless;
  When the fields are bare;
  Buttercups and daisies
  Spring up here and there.

  Mary Howitt

  Spring, Flower, Tree

  Mary Howitt (1855). “Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].”, p.130

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• What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1882). “The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]”

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• I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
  Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.
  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
  Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Flower, June

  Robert Herrick, John Donne (1948). “The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne”

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• Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
  Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
  With brightest sunshine round me spread
  Of spring's unclouded weather,
  In this sequestered nook how sweet
  To sit upon my orchard-seat!
  And birds and flowers once more to greet,
  My last year's friends together.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  William Wordsworth (2008). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The air is like a butterfly
  With frail blue wings.
  The happy earth looks at the sky
  And sings.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Happiness, Spring, Butterfly

  Joyce Kilmer (1946). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• March is the month of expectation,
  The things we do not know,
  The Persons of Prognostication
  Are coming now.
  We try to sham becoming firmness,
  But pompous joy
  Betrays us, as his first betrothal
  Betrays a boy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Boys, Expectations

  Emily Dickinson (1915). “The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime”

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