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Spring Quotations
All through the long Winter,
I dream of my Garden.
On the first day of Spring,
I dig my fingers deep into soft earth.
I can feel its energy,
and my spirits soar.
~Helen Hayes~
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 is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne~
(1837-1909)
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
~T.S. Eliot~
(1888-1965)
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king;
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing.
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
~Thomas Nashe~
(1567-1601)
Heart-leaves of lilac all over New England,
Roots of lilac under all the soil of New England,
Lilac in me because I am New England.
~Amy Lowell~
(1874-1925)
Sun shines, birds sing,
garden angels flowers bring.
~Anonymous~
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 comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.
~Robert Frost~
(1874-1963)
Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers.
~Thomas Tusser~
A Kite
I often sit and wish that I
Could be a kite up in the sky,
And ride upon the breeze and go
Whichever way I chanced to blow.
~Author Unknown~
The song of a robin
is an angels voice in the garden.
~Anonymous~
When you desire fragrance,
an angel is a flower.
When you desire music,
an angel is a songbird.
~Anonymous~ 
When the April wind wakes the call for the soil,
I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth,
and, as I follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow,
I am planted with every foot-step, growing,
budding, blooming into a spirit of spring.
~Dallas Lore Sharp~
(1870-1929)
Windchimes in your yard
will serenade garden creatures ~
squirrels, fairies and angels.
~Anonymous~
Where you may see a fading bloom,
an angels notice the flower budding.
~Anonymous~
An Angel falls from heaven
with each drop of rain
to guide it to its place.
~Anonymous~
Thought is the blossom;
language the bud;
action the fruit behind it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
To find the universal elements enough;
to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
. .to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring -
- these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
~John Burroughs~
(1837-1921)
No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
~Proverb from Guinea~
The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring;
the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust.
The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells,
and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
~Willa Cather~
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.
~William Wordsworth~
Every blade of grass has its Angel
that bends over it and whispers,
"Grow, Grow"
~The Talmud~
(BC 500-400 AD)
I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become,
I will always plant a large garden in the spring.
Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one
gets from participating in nature's rebirth?
~Edward Giobbi~
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose
I would always greet it in a garden.
~Ruth Stout~
If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year,
or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake,
and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would
be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!
But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity.
To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be
miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God's power
seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
Sweetly breathing , vernal air,
That with kind warmth doth repair
Winter's ruins; from whose breast
All the gums and spice of the East
Borrow their perfumes; whose eye
Gilds the morn, and clears the sky.
~Thomas Carew~
(1595 - 1645)
Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
~The Gospel According To Zen~
And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere,
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast,
rose from the dreams of it's wintry rest.
~Author Unknown~
In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse;
The flowering branches are
of themselves, some short, some long.
~Ryokan~
When the time is ripe for certain things,
these things appear in different places in the manner
of violets coming to light in the early spring.
~Farkas Bolyai~
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
~William Shakespeare~
O! how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
~William Shakespeare~
(1564-1616)
Only in dreams of spring
Shall I ever see again
The flowering of my cherry trees.
~Frances Hodgson Burnett~
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.
~Sir Thomas Malory~
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.
~A.E. Housman~
(1859-1936)
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.
~Henry Reed~
A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
~Emily Dickinson~
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.
~Robert Herrick~
(1591-1674)
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
~e e cummings~
(1894-1962)
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~
(1852-1933)
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
~Walt Whitman~
(1819-1892)
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson~
(1809-1892)
"Some men there are who find in nature all
Their inspiration, hers the sympathy
Which spurs them on to any great endeavor,
To them the fields and woods are closest friends,
And they hold dear communion with the hills;
The voice of waters soothes them with its fall,
And the great winds bring healing in their sound.
To them a city is a prison house"
~Amy Lowell~
(1874-1925)
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