10 March 2024

Spring!

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

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.  ~W. Earl Hall


April is a promise that May is bound to keep.  ~Hal Borland

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done...
~Matthew Arnold

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
~Susan J. Bissonette

Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
~e.e. cummings

A little Madness in the spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
~Emily Dickinson

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year."
~Robert Frost

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
~Helen Hayes

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

If spring came but once 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. "
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
~Ellis Peters

Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring An experience in immortality.
~Henry David Thoreau

Fled now the sullen murmurs of the North,
The splendid raiment of the Spring peeps forth.
      ~ Robert Bloomfield

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees,
  Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.
      ~ William Cowper

All flowers of Spring are not May's own;
  The crocus cannot often kiss her;
    The snow-drop, ere she comes, has flown:--
      The earliest violets always miss her.
      ~ Lucy Larcom

O, how this spring of love resembleth
  The uncertain glory of an April day,
    Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
      And by and by a cloud takes all away!
     ~William Shakespeare

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