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“In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.”

Believe Stills Morning Wind Spring Plant Snow Weather Spite Unexpected Bigotry Gardener

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.”

May Real Wind Spring Snow Fraud Eastern Pious Parody Ghastly

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours.”

Hours Feet Sweet Wind Spring Fingers Snow Welcome Ice March Showers Toes April Freeze January Unkind February Flanders Sleet

Author:Michael Flanders

“Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.”

Firsts Littles Stills Home Earth Song Waiting Wonder Spring Bird Garden South Snow Welcome Symbols Farmers Mates Wet Hardy Orchard Bluebird Minstrels

Author:Neltje Blanchan

“Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!”

Years Forget Grace Spring Snow Modest Fleeting Chaste Harbinger Pensive Snowdrops

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .”

Mind Home Lying Force Grows Spring Wings Rose Winter Snow Bees Sweetness Icy Abacus

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace, some things having died off, some sprouting in their first spring, but all of equal and utter rightness.”

Firsts Would Be Earth Lasts Perfect Tree Special Rocks Ought Equal Spring Miracle Died Winter Snow Autumn Pace Moss

Author:Jean Liedloff

“Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany

“It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.”

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast, Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost; The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return; From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.”

Source: The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe

“I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.”

Knows Two Failing Spring Bird Green Tiny Snow Green Leaves

Book:Dreams

Source: Dreams

“I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists”

Firsts Remember Night Sound Spring Window Snow Every Night Scent Melting Melting Snow

Author:John J. Geddes

“There is a drop of blood in the snow before me.... The coyote... is in estrus.... spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring.”

Bits Blood Ready Messages Spring Winter Snow Clock Coyotes Sending A Message

Author:Craig Childs

“In winter, play with the snow; in summer, play with the Sun! Do not wait for something to come; everything is already here! In autumn, play with the leaves, in spring, play with the flowers! In summer, don't wait for the winter; in winter, don't wait for the summer! Everything is already here, in this present time you live in!”

Play Waiting Sun Flower Summer Spring Winter Snow Autumn Present Time

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.”

Form Young Black White Summer Spring Green Winter Snow Golden Autumn Contrast Violet Corn Hue Bronze

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.”

“Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an d cruel are like the snow of the northlands, stilling and freezing, at whose touch all beings die.”

Shows Dies Grows Spring Warm Snow Taoism Broads Breeze Nurturing Envious Freezing Considerate

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.”

Worst Summer Spring Seasons Winter Snow Allergies Swimsuits

Author:Teresa Lo

“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”

Firsts Arms Spring Bird Woods Tiny Snow Flight Afghanistan Leafs Shaking Melting Flakes Open Arms Tiny Things Amir

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we're dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whoosing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the tress.”

Looks Hands Night Fall Sound Perfect Car Fronts Building Spring Laughter Raises Dancing Smell Snow Apartment Avenues Cherries Sidewalk Belle Cherry Blossom Take My Hand Tresses

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“When snow melts, what does it become?' It becomes water, of course' Wrong! It becomes spring!”

Doe Courses Water Spring Snow

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.”

Should Difficult Water Cold Drink Healthy Mountain Spring Flow Snow All Time Beverages Cold Water

Author:Brigham Young

“..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.”

Might Faces Lying Song Dies Fall Silence Growing Sea Fields Cold Spring Bird Wave Currents Storm Snow Ran Unseen Growing Things

Book:The Susanna Kearsley Collection

Source: The Susanna Kearsley Collection

“If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire shadows on the snow. Or back to oak trees in the spring When you unloosed my hair and kissed The head that lay against your knees In the leaf shadow's amethyst. And still another shining place We would remember -- how the dun Wild mountain held us on its crest One diamond morning white with sun. But I will turn my eyes from you As women turn to put away The jewels they have worn at night And cannot wear in sober day.”

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.”

Light Struggle Scene Spring Winter Track Woods Tales Snow Weather Wander Buried Pedestal Slender Palimpsest

Book:Child of God

Source: Child of God

“And this is a kiss like none before, a kiss that could overcome the dark of deep space night. It's a falling star, flame, ice. It's pure as water from a snow-fed mountain spring. This is what you dream a kiss to be. To have a kiss just like this each and every day! How satisfying life would be.”

Dream Would Be Night Fall Stars Water Dark Space Pure Mountain Kissing Spring Overcoming Snow Ice Flames Feds Satisfying Deep Space

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.”

Knows May Self Tree Scene One Day Spring Winter Following Snow Covered

Author:Arthur Golden

“The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.”

Moments Light Night Strange Pages Spring Warm Snow Golden Dawn Prose Golden Moments

Book:Princess Academy: Palace of Stone

Source: Princess Academy: Palace of Stone

“When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.”

Feels Littles Energy Waiting Return Spring Weak Winter Snow Winter Snow New Energy Love You Like

Author:Paulo Coelho

“For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”

“I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.”

“If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

“So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.”

Source: Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

Years Looks Littles White Rooms Tree Ten Spring Twenties Snow Fifty Score Hung Seventies Leaving Me Cherries Woodland Wearing White

Author:A. E. Housman

“Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805

“The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up into the sky- So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold. Now the sun walks in the forest, He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers; They shiver, and wake from slumber. Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls. Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears.... A wind dances over the fields. Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter, Yet the little blue lakes tremble And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse

“There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.”

Ifs Mind Light Spiritual Spirituality Flower Thousand Moon Summer Spring Winter Snow Vanity Autumn Rejoice Breeze Full Moon Blossoming

Author:Wumen Huikai

“I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather, one ancient willow managed a few gray pussy willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred gray background.”

Source: Beyond the Aspen Grove

“Sprigs of plum by the corner of the wall Are blooming alone in the cold; If not for the subtle fragrance drifting over Who could tell this from snow on the boughs.”

Ifs Wall Cold Spring Corners Snow Subtle Fragrance Drifting Blooming Plums

Author:Wang Anshi

“My heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April, The drench of rains and a snow-drop quick and clear as a spark; Daffodils blowing in the cold wind of morning, And golden tulips, goblets holding the rain - The garden will be hushed with snow, forgotten soon, forgotten - After the stillness, will spring come again?”

“Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.”

Inspirational Time Flower Moon Summer Spring Concern Seasons Winter Snow Autumn Idle Breeze

Author:Wumen Huikai

“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.”

“In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

Heart Dream Spiritual Death Lying Desire Spring Eternity Silent Depth Seeds Snow Gates Condolences Poems

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces