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William Shakespeare2 quotes
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day. — William Shakespeare · 1616Beware the ides of March. — William Shakespeare · 1599Charles Dickens1 quote
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 · 1861George Eliot1 quote
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. — George Eliot · 1866Horace1 quote
The snows have fled, now grass returns to the fields and leaves to the trees. — Horace · 11 BCKenneth Grahame1 quote
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 · 1908Leo Tolstoy1 quote
Spring is the time of plans and projects. — Leo Tolstoy · 1877Leonidas of Tarentum1 quote
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 · 200 BCPeter John Gzowski1 quote
We need spring. We need it desperately and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us. — Peter John Gzowski · 1979Robert Frost1 quote
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 · 1934Sir Thomas Mallory1 quote
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. — Sir Thomas Mallory · 1485T.S. Eliot1 quote
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. — T.S. Eliot · 1922