First a howling blizzard woke us, / Then the rain came down to soak us, / And now before the eye can focus — / Crocus.

 —Lilja Rogers

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.      

 —Hal Borland

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

—Margaret Atwood

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

—Helen Hayes

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

 —E.B. White

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

—Lewis Grizzard

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.

—Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

—Chinese Proverb

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

 —Mark Twain

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

—Rainer Maria Rilke

Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.

– e.e. cummings

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

 – Langston Hughes

A little madness in spring is wholesome even for the King.

 – Emily Dickinson

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

—Wallace Stevens

Every spring is the only spring — a perpetual astonishment.

—Ellis Peters

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

 —George Santayana