Quotes about spring
spring moon color
In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be ... Wallace Stevens
spring
The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly. Wallace Stevens
spring sunset color
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital. Vincent Canby
spring party winter
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party. William Henry Ashley
spring sunshine light
There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring. Willa Cather
spring reflection air
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
spring feel-good training
I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good. Vladimir Guerrero
spring creativity giving
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity. Vladimir Lenin
spring done toss
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders. Virginia Woolf
spring autumn thinking
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. Virginia Woolf
spring sky rivers
The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy. Wallace Stevens
spring long done
I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image. Samuel Beckett
spring flower fall
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. Samuel Butler
spring humanity mountain
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
spring years two
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
spring heart my-heart
A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
spring way months
'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
spring winter years
The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature. Samuel L. Jackson
spring months october
I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring. W. S. Merwin
spring flower religion
Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way. William Cowper
spring rocks tree
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. William Cowper
spring block rocks
It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched. Tove Jansson
spring fall july
I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings. Tony Shalhoub
spring greed suffering
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow. Velupillai Prabhakaran
spring men sea
A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea. Ursula K. Le Guin
spring blue years
Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!. William Allingham
spring tree doe
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. Wilfred Owen
spring character hands
It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven. Thomas Guthrie
spring progress brooks
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Thomas Gray
spring wings taste
The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon! Thomas Gray
spring cuckoos harmony
The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring. Thomas Gray
spring flower fall
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn. Thomas B. Macaulay
spring expression ideas
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings. Thomas B. Macaulay