Before everyone else flocks to Yoido for the cherry blossoms, I spent my Tuesday afternoon peacefully with these beauties…
so, let me officially welcome Spring!
“April has put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)”
– William Shakespeare
“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer”
– Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“The deep roots never doubt spring will come.”
– Marty Rubin
“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!”
– Robin Williams, Weapons of Self-Destruction
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
– Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
– Susan J. Bissonette
“If Spring crawls out of mouth of wild flowers, then surely, Winter crawls out of min.”
– Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless
“The promise of Spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter.”
– Jen Selinsky
“Winter is the reason for the spring; he who loves spring must also love its reason!”
– Mehmet Murat ildan
“But only a person in the depths of despair neglected t look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.”
– Mary Balogh, A Matter of Class
“The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.”
– Emily Dickinson
“It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.”
– John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
“Spring drew on… and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”
– Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?”
– Neltje Blanchan
“Winter is already a lost shape, forgotten in the ground.
Instead, here is Spring with all the grace f a woman smoothing out her apron.”
– Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless
“Came the spring with all its splendor. All its birds and all its blossoms. All its flowers and leaves and grasses”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Spring shows what God can d with a drab and dirty world.”
– Virgil Kraft
“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
‘Winter is dead'”.
– A.A. Milne, When We Were Young
