Quotes by Spring The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun. Heinrich Heine naturespringmorning It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge. Helen Keller pridespringart Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. Henri Frederic Amiel analysiscreativityspring The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer. Henry Beston qualitysocialspring The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling. Heinrich Heine flowerspringcountry A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. Henry Edward Manning fellowship-with-godhabitspring The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. Heinrich Heine eyespringnight The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction. Henri Matisse lightningartistspring The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them. Henry Adams dogspringbeautiful Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain. Henri Nouwen painflowerspring Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. Henry Kirke White flowerspringfall At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment. Henry George realspringpast Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. Henri Frederic Amiel flowerspringmen There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late. Even the most beautiful weather will not allay the gardener's notion (well-founded actually) that he is somehow too late, too soon, or that he has too much stuff going on or not enough. For the garden is the stage on which the gardener exults and agonizes out every crest and chasm of the heart. Henry Mitchell heartspringbeautiful There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late. Henry Mitchell hot-daysspringtoo-late We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring. Henry Reed slidesflowerspring The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.' Henry Reed flowermayspring 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 cuttingspringbelieve Spring is a true reconstructionist. Henry Timrod mayspring A ward, and still in bonds, one day Henry Vaughan cloudsspringwind«4849505152535455565758»
