"In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring."
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
--Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900)
"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."
--Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
"That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs"
--Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)
"Spring is when life's alive in everything."
--Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
--Susan J. Bissonette (??)
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
--Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
I mean...Miss Dazzle.
uhm...Miss Dazzle...you forgot the best spring like poem of all!!!!!
"Daffodils" (1804)
I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
