April And Spring Quotes - Page 3

• The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Garden, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.275, The Floating Press

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• Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Song, Laughter, Flower

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• All things seem possible in May.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spring, May, Seems

  Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”

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• Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

  Thomas Nashe

  Sweet, Kings, Spring

  'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

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• Oh, to be in England now that April's there.

  Robert Browning

  England, April

  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" l. 1 (1845)

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• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Time, Spring

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.

  Austin O'Malley

  Spring, Book, April

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• Sweet April-time - O cruel April-time!
  Year after year returning, with a brow
  Of promise, and red lips with longing paled,
  And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys
  Of vanished springs, like flowers.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

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• I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Romantic, Spring

  Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair "Poem 14" l. 35 (1924) (translation byW. S. Merwin)

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

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Spring, Heart

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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