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Spring Quotes

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

– Pablo Neruda

If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere.

– Seamus Heaney

Attributed, and much quoted to offer hope during coronavirus pandemic.

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere.

– John O’Donohue

Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong.

Within the grip of winter, it is almost impossible to imagine the spring. The gray perished landscape is shorn of color. Only bleakness meets the eye; everything seems severe and edged. Winter is the oldest season; it has some quality of the absolute. Yet beneath the surface of winter, the miracle of spring is already in preparation; the cold is relenting; seeds are wakening up. Colors are beginning to imagine how they will return. Then, imperceptibly, somewhere one bud opens and the symphony of renewal is no longer reversible. From the black heart of winter a miraculous, breathing plenitude of color emerges.

– John O’Donohue

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.

The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual slow beat always inching its way forward; change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the full confidence of true arrival. Because nothing is abrupt, the beginning of spring nearly always catches us unawares. It is there before we see it; and then we can look nowhere without seeing it.

– John O’Donohue

To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (Benedictus in Europe).

When the night has been too lonely And the road has been too long, And you think that love is only For the lucky and the strong - Amanda McBroom

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun’s love
In the spring becomes the rose.

– Amanda McBroom

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

– Henry Rollins

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

– Gordon Sinclair

There’s a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

– Howard Jacobson

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn’t spring from the same part of the mind.

– Harold Pinter

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

– Hal Borland

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

– Harriet Ann Jacobs

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

– Henry Williamson

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me ‘Kid’ because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

– Gary Carter

It’s the fans that need spring training. You gotta get ’em interested. Wake ’em up and let ’em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

– Harry Caray

Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That’s another question.

– Gilles Duceppe

What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?

– Hal Newhouser

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

– Herbert Hoover

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

– Gustav Mahler

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

– Gustav Mahler

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

– Henry David Thoreau

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.

– Harry Mathews

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.

– Henry Rollins

Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.

– Henry Rollins

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

– Hugh Mackay

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

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

– Hanya Yanagihara

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

– Georg Trakl

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

– Henry Rollins

I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

– Halldor Laxness

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