100+ April And Spring Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.82

topic: Spring, Winter, April, Winter To Spring, Limping

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

topic: Spring, Spring Flowers, Spring May, Spring Season, Winter To Spring

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

topic: Spring, Differences, Firsts, March Poems, Spring Day

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Spring, Flower, Rain, Spring Day, Spring Flowers

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: "Locksley Hall" l. 20 (1842)

topic: Change, Spring, Flower, Irises, April And Spring

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!

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

topic: Spring, Yesterday, Miracle, Twigs, Springtime Inspirational

I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

- John Masefield

topic: Spring, Rain, April, Daffodil, April And Spring

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.

- Robert Burns

source: Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.82

topic: Spring, White, Tree, Blooming, April And Spring

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

- Gustav Mahler

topic: Spring, Air, House, Spring Break, Spring Inspirational

Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, William George CLARK, William Aldis Wright (1866). “The Globe Edition. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright”, p.1040

topic: Summer, Sweet, Flower, April And Spring

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Funny Inspirational, Spring, World, Pranks, Fools Day

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

- Thomas Nash

source: 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

topic: Sweet, Kings, Spring, Spring Awakening, Spring Poems

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Bridges, America, Rude, Stamp Act, Minutemen

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