Quotes · Skopia

12 quotes

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Topic·Spring✕clear

We need spring. We need it desperately and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us.

Peter John Gzowski

1979

★ 0.9

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.

1934

★ 1.8

The season of ships is here, The west wind and the swallows; Flowers in the fields appear, And the ocean of hills and hollows Has calmed its waves and is clear. Free that anchor and chain! Set your full canvas flying, O men in the harbor lane: It is I, Pirapus crying. Sail out on your trades again!

Leonidas of Tarentum

Spring on the Coast · 200 BC

★ 1.9

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

Beware the ides of March.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 1.9

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

Sir Thomas Mallory

Le Morte d'Arthur · 1485

★ 2.0

Play · Comedy (play)

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day.

William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona · 1616

★ 2.0

The snows have fled, now grass returns to the fields and leaves to the trees.

Odes · 11 BC

★ 2.1

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.4

Novel · Children's literature

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows · 1908

★ 3.5

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

Felix Holt, the Radical · 1866

★ 3.6

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

The Waste Land · 1922

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

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 · 1861

★ 3.9