Spring Flowers Quotes - Page 2

• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  Samuel Johnson

  Appreciation, Spring, Flower

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Weather, Different

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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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• Break open
  A cherry tree
  And there are no flowers;
  But the spring breeze
  Brings forth myriad blossoms.

  Ikkyu

  Nature, Spring, Flower

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

  William Carlos Williams

  Rain, Flower, Compassion

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Heart, Names

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.193, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, People, Limits

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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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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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

  Toni Morrison

  Spring, Rain, Flower

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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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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Squirrels, Earth Day

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• Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Nature, Flower, Humanity

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社

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• Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Flower, Picks

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Patience, Spring, Decisions You Make

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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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

  Spring, Humble, Feelings

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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 every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  Pam Brown

  Nature, Spring, Lasts

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• Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Patience, Spring

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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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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• The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Spring, Differences, Months

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Fisherman's Luck”, p.95, Wildside Press LLC

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• Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.

  Earl Nightingale

  Children, Growing Up, Spring

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• We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Song, Spring, Flower

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Spring, Flower, Garden

  Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.

  Max Beckmann

  Summer, Spring, Grief

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