Spring Quotes

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Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. - Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You


Spring is nature’s way of saying, "Let’s party!"  - Robin Williams


Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. - Geoffrey B. Charlesworth


In Spring, everything is full of promise.... The child sporting upon the lawn, and the season, sympathize together, and nature rejoices in her virgin loveliness. - Charles Lanman, "The Dying Year," 1840


April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. - Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe


Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. - George Herbert


It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations


Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke


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


Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. - Charles Dudley Warner


Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
- Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"


I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. - Ruth Stout


No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. - Proverb


Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. - Doug Larson


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


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet


The year’s at the spring
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven -
All’s right with the world!
- Robert Browning


No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. - Hal Borland


Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. - Virgil A. Kraft


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


Where man sees but withered leaves,
God sees sweet flowers growing.
- Albert Laighton


That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
- Winifred Mary Letts


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




In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. - Margaret Atwood


Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year. - Ogden Nash


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 its wintry rest.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"


May-Day is never allowed to pass in this community without profuse lamentations over the tardiness of our spring as compared with that of England and the poets. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "April Days," 1861


Every spring is the only spring — a perpetual astonishment. - Ellis Peters


Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. - Chinese Proverb


The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun’s kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.
- Julian Grenfell


In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. - Mark Twain


Oh, Spring is surely coming,
Her couriers fill the air;
Each morn are new arrivals,
Each night her ways prepare;
I scent her fragrant garments,
Her foot is on the stair.
- John Burroughs, "A March Glee"


Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers. - Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens


Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis. - Author Unknown


Under the giving snow blossoms a daring spring. - Terri Guillemets


O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley


You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda


[W]ell-apparell’d April on the heel
Of limping winter treads...
- William Shakespeare


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


Forgive me if, in friendship’s way,
I offer thee a wreath of May....
[N]ourished by the dews of heaven....
So I have Ivy placed between,
To prove that worth is ever green.
The little blue Forget-me-not...
Spring’s messenger in every spot,
Smiling on all—"Remember me!"
- John Clare, "To E.L.E. on May Morning," May 1st 1830


Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. - Rainer Maria Rilke


The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun... - Heinrich Heine, "Ideas: Book Le Grand," 1826, translated from German by Charles Godfrey Leland, Pictures of Travel, 1855


The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
- Robert Frost


Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. 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 would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana


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 is not the best of seasons.
Cold and flu are two good reasons;
wind and rain and other sorrow,
warm today and cold tomorrow.
- Author Unknown


The sun has come out... and the air is vivid with spring light. - Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens


The sprites of the fruits, and flowers, and leaves,
They had long been out at play...
But the stirring blast that clarion cast,
Oh, it broke their holiday!—
And they hurry home at their topmost speed,
Flurried and flushed with the sudden need,
Sprinkling the earth as they pass along
With a flood of colour and gush of song—
For the Summer is coming to wed the Spring,
And earth on their altar her wealth shall fling,
And the Heaven's soft odours and breezes bring,
And the hollow heights and the depths shall ring
With a wild overgushing of gladdening...
- J.J. Britton (1832–1913), "March"


Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners. - Virginia Cary Hudson, "Spring," O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, 1962


I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. - Pablo Neruda


April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. - William Shakespeare


I hear the passing echoes of winter and feel the warming spring on my face. - Terri Guillemets


Out with the cold, in with the woo. - E. Marshall, "Spring Thought"


A day comes in the springtime
When Earth puts forth her powers,
Casts off the bonds of winter
And lights him hence with flowers...
- Dora Read Goodale, "The Chorus," in Country Life in America: A Magazine for the Home-maker, the Vacation-seeker, the Gardener, the Farmer, the Nature-teacher, the Naturalist, April 1902


Springtime flowers bloom like colorful arrows piercing their way to the sun. - Terri Guillemets


After the epigæa and the hepatica have blossomed, there is a slight pause among the wild-flowers, — these two forming a distinct prologue for their annual drama, as the brilliant witch-hazel in October brings up its separate epilogue. The truth is, Nature attitudinizes a little, liking to make a neat finish with everything, and then to begin again with éclat.... Each species seems to burst upon us with a united impulse; you may search for it day after day in vain, but the day when you find one specimen the spell is broken and you find twenty. By the end of April all the margins of the great poem of the woods are illuminated with these exquisite vignettes. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "April Days," first published 1861, quoted from the 1897 edition


A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
- Emily Dickinson


The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. - Bern Williams


Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
- L.H. Bailey


If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. - Nadine Stair


Comes happy Spring, like a maiden fair,
Quickly breathing the odorous air,
With grass-green robes, and round her hair
Apple and almond blooms, with care
Twisted and twined in a circlet rare...
And wherever she passes, morn or night,
All the broad earth smiles a smile of delight.
- J.J. Britton (1832–1913), "Epithalamium"


Spring breezes drift and tiny May birds chirp in morning's dawn-lit heart. - Terri Guillemets


I wonder if the Daffodil
Shrinks from the touch of frost,
And when her veins grow stiff and still
She dreams that life is lost?
Ah, if she does, how sweet a thing
Her resurrection day in spring!
- Emma C. Dowd, "Daffodil and Crocus," in Country Life in America: A Magazine for the Home-maker, the Vacation-seeker, the Gardener, the Farmer, the Nature-teacher, the Naturalist, April 1902


A wizard must have passed this way
Since—was it only yesterday?
Then all was bare, and now, behold,
A hundred cups of living gold!
- Emma C. Dowd, "Daffodil and Crocus," in Country Life in America: A Magazine for the Home-maker, the Vacation-seeker, the Gardener, the Farmer, the Nature-teacher, the Naturalist, April 1902


The Spring has come again
For the grass is growing green,
And among the fields of clover
Bright butterflies are seen.
The little birds are singing sweetly
As they fly from tree to tree...
The busy bees are gathering
The honey from the flowers,
And the merry birds are building
Their nests in sheltered bowers...
- Josephine D.C., "Spring," c.1887


There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April.... The sun trembles in his own soft rays.... The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday.... though there is warmth enough for a sense of luxury, there is coolness enough for exertion. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "April Days," 1861


Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! - Wallace Stevens


Hark! the hours are softly calling
Bidding Spring arise
To listen to the rain-drops falling
From the cloudy skies
To listen to Earth’s weary voices
Louder every day
Bidding her no longer linger
On her charm’d way
But hasten to her task of beauty
Scarcely yet begun.
- Adelaide Anne Procter


The front door to springtime is a photographer’s best friend. - Terri Guillemets


The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. - E.B. White, "Hot Weather," One Man’s Meat, 1944


Hope is a roving gypsy
With laughter on her tongue,
And the blue sky and sunshine
Alone, can keep her young;
And year by year she lingers
Under a budding tree...
- Dora Read Goodale, "The Chorus," in Country Life in America: A Magazine for the Home-maker, the Vacation-seeker, the Gardener, the Farmer, the Nature-teacher, the Naturalist, April 1902


Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire. - Virgil


First a howling blizzard woke us,
Then the rain came down to soak us,
And now before the eye can focus —
Crocus. - Lilja Rogers


But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy.... There is a fascination in walking through these bare early woods, — there is such a pause of preparation, winter's work is so cleanly and thoroughly done. Everything is taken down and put away.... All else is bare, but prophetic: buds everywhere, the whole splendor of the coming summer concentrated in those hard little knobs on every bough... - Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "April Days," 1861


May is a pious fraud of the almanac. - James R. Lowell


Gentle Spring's around the corner,
Waiting just to show her face
And to bring us flowers and sunshine;
Winter's almost run his race!
Be not, then, my friends, discouraged
That there's cold and ice and sleet;
For Springtime soon will be with us,
And the flowers we will greet:
Daffodils, so bright and yellow,
Hyacinths of varied hues,
As they nod their heads, in gladness,
Telling us they bring good news...
- Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Springtime" (1940s)


How wonderfully these pictures have caught the look of tentative spring—spring waiting for a single day to burst into living green. - Alice Morse Earle, "In Lilac Tide," Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth, 1901


You can’t see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it’s there. It’s the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland. - Paul Fleischman


It’s spring! Farewell
To chills and colds!
The blushing, girlish
World unfolds
Each flower, leaf
And blade of sod—
Small letters sent
To her from God.
- John Updike, "April," A Child’s Calendar, 1965


Spring: the music of open windows. - Terri Guillemets


People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. - Rogers Hornsby