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“Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding my bicycle, I catch myself feeling, in a way that’s as old as I am but suddenly seems unfamiliar, light. I have felt so heavy for so long. At first I felt odd- as if I shouldn’t be feeling this lightness, that familiar little catch of pleasure in the heart which is inexplicable, though a lovely passage of notes or the splendidly turned petal of a tulip has triggered it. It’s my buoyancy, part of what keeps me alive: happy, suddenly with the concomitant experience of a sonata and the motion of the shadows of leaves. I have the desire to be filled with sunlight, to soak my skin in as much of it as I can drink up, after the long interior darkness of this past season, the indoor vigil, in this harshest and darkest of winters, outside and in.”
― Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

“But why should the daffodils and tulips
Get all the praise and blessings?
My rebirth goes unnoticed- I am worthy
Of smiles and dazzled cries of worship.”
― Lea Malot, Coffins & Rhinestones

“At the beginning of the day, when you're doing a show like this, you want to entertain and you want people to have a really fun time...but at the end of the day you want them to walk out feeling changed and taking something more away from it...and it's really kind of rare that you get to do that all in the same night.”
― John Gallagher

“Homophobes are the bitch of living.”
― andrea

“Spring brings warmth and blossom of flowers.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I only want to warn you that even the best can do one harm when one isn’t ripe enough in years to receive it properly.”
― Frank Wedekind

“The winter, the animal sleep of the earth is over
And in the warmth of the affirming sun
All beings, beasts, men planets, waters, move
Freed from the imprisoning frost, acclaim their love
That is the light of the sun.”
― Edith Sitwell, Green Song and Other Poems

“After the long and portentous eclipse of the patient sun
The sudden spring began”
― Edith Sitwell, Green Song and Other Poems

“The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft green, and the skies above our house were filled with choruses of birdsong once again.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen

“Ha! spring arrived on her sweet scented palanquin,carried by the spirited Zephyrus and his coir with their murmuring music undulated in its own softness and fondled the leaves to astir.”
― Nithin Purple, Venus and Crepuscule

“Maybe I don’t know the names of any of the flowers of Vrangelya, but I know every one here. I know that soon the ground will be covered with white-and- yellow
bloodroot. Tiny explosive trout lily. Mounds
of green-framed white trillium. Rue anemone in the palest pink. All blooming in the short frame between the thawing of the ground and the leaf-out that will block the sun.
It’s what happens in spring when all of Homelands calls out:
Look at me.
Listen to me.
Love me.
Make life with me.”
― Maria Vale, Forever Wolf

“Winter has frozen my heart. I can’t wait to drink
a glass of spring.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Spring time is a time for new adventure.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Your explanation brought up a host of dim recollections, which affected me as a song of his childhood affects a man on his deathbed when hear from the lips of another.”
― Frank Wedekind

“The air had borrowed wind from the wildernesses of our hills. It had stolen the fragrance from the jasmines and was blowing it around as its own. It carried the scent of crushed grapes from the surrounding grapevines and released it in occasional whiffs. The saffron fields were in full bloom, it was spring.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Game of Big Numbers

“Τα χαϊκού της Άνοιξης

Ι.
Στο φόρεμά σου
- Ω, Άνοιξη πανώρια -
Ρόδα ανθίζουν

The haiku of Spring

Ι.
On your dress
- Oh, gorgeous Spring -
roses bloom

ΙΙ.
Το φως του ήλιου
Στα μαλλιά σου στάθηκε
Καλώς σε, Κυρά!

II.
The sunlight
stood still upon your hair
Welcome, my Lady!

Haiku and Translation by Irene Doura-Kavadia”
― Irene Doura-Kavadia

“It was the end of March and, even though the weather hadn't warmed noticeably at this elevation, the winter buds had begun to swell on the oaks, giving them the quality of knots in fine lace against the gray overcast.”
― James G. Brown, The Morning Side

“Flowers clad in colorful t-shirts and vibrant shorts are swaying in the gentle breeze. Birds are singing. Trees start filling with leaves, and the branches laden with exploding buds look majestic. Balmy spring days are coming. I am happy, very happy.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Rising through the winter fog, spring is already here. And if I could have one wish come true, I'd wish that I could live inside the heart of spring and fill the world with the flowers of love and peace.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Everyone sleeps and everyone wakes up; these are ordinary and boring awakenings! But there is also the awakening of spring, an extraordinary awakening! In classical music, all the instruments start to play at the same time and there is a great wave of excitement, and spring wakes up just like that!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Winter has frozen
my heart.
I can’t wait to drink
a glass of spring
and get wild.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“It was the coldest winter ever, and I feared spring was not coming soon. But then it gradually sprung everywhere in my heart and caressed a part of me that cannot be reached any other way.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Flowers, clad in colourful t-shirts and vibrant shorts, are swaying in the gentle breeze. Birds are singing, and trees are beginning to fill with leaves. The branches, laden with exploding buds, look majestic. Balmy spring days are coming. I am happy—thrilled.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Spring, is a time of re-growth and renewal. It is a time when one has more garden chores to do, such as planting new seedings in the vegetable and flower gardens. Also, a time of great activity, when the grass and weeds start to grow and need to be chopped back. There is no mistake, that a lot of people start new businesses, in spring and even get married in spring. It is a time of great promise and forward movement in life.��
“So going back to the yellow flowers, they signify optimism, prosperity and action. So seeing and particularly going outside, when it is spring and spending time with the yellow flowers like the wattle and daffodils give one an increased optimism for the life and the coming season and helps people have more energy to go about the weekly jobs that spring most generously provides!”
― Sarah Rajkotwala, Fairy Sparkles