Springtime Quotes - Page 7

• Let the rain kiss you.
  Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
  The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
  The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
  The rain plays a little sellp-song on our roof at night-
  And I love the rain.

  Langston Hughes

  Running, Song, Spring

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Hark, I hear a robin calling!
  List, the wind is from the south!
  And the orchard-bloom is falling
  Sweet as kisses on the mouth.
  
  In the dreamy vale of beeches
  Fair and faint is woven mist,
  And the river's orient reaches
  Are the palest amethyst.
  
  Every limpid brook is singing
  Of the lure of April days;
  Every piney glen is ringing
  With the maddest roundelays.
  
  Come and let us seek together
  Springtime lore of daffodils,
  Giving to the golden weather
  Greeting on the sun-warm hills.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)”, p.6137, Delphi Classics

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• Come, I come! ye have called me long,
  I come o'er the mountain with light and song:
  Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,
  By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,
  By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,
  By the green leaves, opening as I pass.

  Felicia Hemans

  Song, Stars, Spring

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1853). “Poetical Works”, p.125

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• The roofs are shining from the rain,
  The sparrows twitter as they fly,
  And with a windy April grace
  The little clouds go by.
  Yet the back yards are bare and brown
  With only one unchanging tree-
  I could not be so sure of Spring
  Save that it sings in me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Rain, Clouds

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Crowds, April

  "Memoirs". Book by Edward Gibbon, Vol. i. p. 116, 1796.

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• Spring makes everything look filthy.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Spring, Looks, April

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• No days such honored days as these! While yet
  Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
  For some fair thing which should forever bide
  On earth, her beauteous memory to set
  In fitting frame that no age could forget,
  Her name in lovely April's name did hide,
  And leave it there, eternally allied
  To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Memories, Spring, Flower

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “A Calendar Of Sonnets: April”

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• 'Tis spring; come out to ramble
  The hilly brakes around,
  For under thorn and bramble
  About the hollow ground
  The primroses are found.
  And there's the windflower chilly
  With all the winds at play,
  And there's the Lenten lily
  That has not long to stay
  And dies on Easter day.

  A. E. Housman

  Easter, Spring, Wind

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.

  Antonio Machado

  Wall, Memories, Spring

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair
  The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,
  And Winter slumbering in the open air,
  Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Spring, Winter

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.281

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• For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

  Janet Frame

  Spring, Winter, March

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• It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, seabirds in ones or twos. The rackety, icy, offshore wind numbed our faces on one side; disrupted the formation of a lone flight of Canada geese; and blew back the low, inaudible rollers in upright, steely mist.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Beach, Spring, Ocean

  Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

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• (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
  Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
  And go along with you ere you lose sight
  Of what you came for and become like me,
  
  Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
  How love burns through the Putting in the Seed
  On through the watching for that early birth
  When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
  
  The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
  Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

  Robert Frost

  Weed, Spring, Passion

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

  Bill Nye

  Spring, Winter, Long

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• I remember that Michael Werner told me about a famous collector, and Michael set up an appointment for us to meet. This man looked around the room and at my pictures. Then he said, "Young man, why are you doing these horrible things? Look out the window. There are nice girls out there. It's springtime. Look at how beautiful the world can be. You'll ruin your health by smoking so much and doing such tortured things."

  Georg Baselitz

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

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• When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed, 'what insolence! Just think, it believes it can bring spring in this way!' The flowers of the almond tree blushed for shame. 'Forgive me, my sisters,' said the tree. 'I swear I did not want to blossom, but suddenly I felt a warm springtime breeze in my heart.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Spring, Believe, Flower

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• Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath

  Juliet Marillier

  Iron, Stronger, Breaths

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Cybele's Secret”, p.299, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.

  Sophie Scholl

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

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• Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale.

  Roy Bean

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

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• And fairy month of waking mirth
  From whom our joys ensue
  Thou early gladder of the earth
  Thrice welcome here anew
  With thee the bud unfolds to leaves
  The grass greens on the lea
  And flowers their tender boon receives
  To bloom and smile with thee.

  John Clare

  Spring, Flower, Joy

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• I don't believe the half I hear,
  Nor the quarter of what I see!
  But I have one faith, sublime and true,
  That nothing can shake or slay;
  Each spring I firmly believe anew
  All the seed catalogues say!

  Carolyn Wells

  Spring, Believe, Sublime

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• Flower in the crannied wall,
  I pluck you out of the crannies,
  I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
  Little flower-but if I could understand
  What you are, root and all, all in all,
  I should know what God and man is.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Wall, Spring

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1039, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have seen the Lady April bringing
  the daffodils,
  Bringing the springing grass and the
  soft warm April rain.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Rain, April

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• In California in the early Spring,
  There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day,
  The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain -
  Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

  Robert Hass

  Morning, Pain, Spring

  Robert Hass (1979). “Five American poets: Robert Hass, John Matthias, James McMichael, John Peck, Robert Pinsky”, Persea Books

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