Equinox Quotes:

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Children, Spring, Earth, March Poems, Spring Awakening

Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Taken, Cutting, Men, Solstice, Personal Feelings

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

- Robin Williams

topic: Funny, Motivational, Easter, March Poems, Spring Day

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

- Michel Foucault

source: Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.111, Vintage

topic: Night, Vanity, Light, Equinox

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

topic: Encouraging, Nature, Spring, Inspirational Flower, Spiritual Nature

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

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Inspiring, Hope, Spring, May Flowers, Spring Day

Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.

- Tom Harpur

topic: Religious, Easter, Spring, Sun God, Equinox

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Autumn, Years, Lasts, Equinox, Autumn Days

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

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Spring, Garden, March Poems, Spring Day

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Nature, Youth, Spirit, March Poems, Spring Awakening

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

- George Eliot

topic: Fall, Autumn, Bird, Inspirational Nature, October And Fall

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Spring, Shoes, Whistling, March Poems, Spring Cleaning

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Summer, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

- Emily Bronte

source: Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”

topic: Fall, Autumn, Tree, Inspirational Tree, Fallen Trees

Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.

- Helen Waddell

source: Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

topic: Spring, Storm, Looks, Equinox

The first day of spring is known as the vernal equinox. The equinox is special. It only happens twice a year, like a good night in ratings for NBC.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Good Night, Spring, Nbc, Equinox, First Day Of Spring

And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Fashion, Morning, Stars, Sun Rise, Equinox

People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Cells, Two Sides, People, Kneeling, Equinox

The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.

- Johnny Mercer

topic: Summer, Song, Fall, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.

- Hal Borland

topic: Fall, Autumn, Years, Solstice, Finality

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

- Louis Aragon

topic: Cities, Community, Loner, Rural Communities, Equinox

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

topic: Time, Spring, Fall, October And Fall, Equinox

I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas story. And every time that child's purity is corrupted by society, that's the meaning of the Crucifixion story. Your man Jesus stands for that child, that pure spirit, and as its surrogate, he's being born and put to death again and again, over and over, every time we inhale and exhale, not just at the vernal equinox and on the twenty-fifth of December.

- Tom Robbins

source: "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, September 5, 2000.

topic: Jesus, Children, Men, Equinox

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

- John Keats

source: John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.222, Harvard University Press

topic: Friendship, Summer, Running, Gourds, October And Fall

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

- John Donne

source: 'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

topic: Beauty, Summer, Spring, Spring Poems, Spring Season

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Inspiring, Nature, Flower, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

topic: Sympathy, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Sympathy For A Friend

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

- Humbert Wolfe

source: Humbert Wolfe (1936). “P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains”, London : Cassell

topic: Summer, Autumn, Air, October And Fall, Leaves In The Wind

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

source: Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

topic: Inspiring, Summer, Cheer, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

The Revelation of the Báb may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac—the sign Aries—which the sun enters at the vernal equinox. The station of Bahá’u’lláh's Revelation, on the other hand, is represented by the sign Leo, the sun's midsummer and highest station. By this is meant that this holy Dispensation is illumined with the light of the Sun of Truth shining from its most exalted station, and in the plenitude of its resplendency, its heat and glory.

- Shoghi Effendi

topic: Zodiac, Plenitude, Equinox