April And Spring Quotes

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Spring, Flower, April

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

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• The world's favorite season is the spring.
  All things seem possible in May.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spring, World, May

  Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the 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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• She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.

  A. A. Milne

  Spring, Winter, Yellow

  A.A. Milne (1950). “When We Were Very Young”, GoodBook Classics

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• Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Spring, Fall, Rain

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.94, Xist Publishing

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Spring, Flower

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Spring, Rain, Wind

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1879). “Along the Way”

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Spring, Heart

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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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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• I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

  Langston Hughes

  Morning, Spring, Bangs

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.110, University of Missouri Press

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• There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

  William Browne

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'

  Robert Orben

  Spring, Way, More Time

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.153, Main Street Books

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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

  Spring, Proud, Youth

  Sonnet 98

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• The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.

  Thomas Malory

  Spring, Heart, Tree

  'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 18, ch. 25

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• April, April
  Laugh thy girlish laughter;
  Then, the moment after,
  Weep thy girlish tears.

  William Watson

  Laughter, Spring, Laughing

  Poems (1905) vol. 1, "Song"

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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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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Time, Spring

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• The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

  Thomas Malory

  Heart, Lust, May

  'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 18, ch. 25

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

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Lying, Spring

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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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 lightning to hear him sing.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Nature

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”

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• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Spring, Fall

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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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• 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, Spring

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

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