{"quotes":[{"text":"Perhaps, as with advancing age, the physical life becomes less important and yet, paradoxically, more precious, this green revolution against the temporary death of winter is a reminder that the earth, like our own lives, is a gift.","author":"Willem Lange","tags":["age","life","spring","springtime"],"id":208,"author_id":"Willem+Lange"},{"text":"Again burst out that chant McKay had heard as he had floated through the mists upon the lake. Now, as then, despite his opened ears, he could distinguish no words, but clearly he understood its mingled themes - the joy of Spring's awakening, rebirth, with the green life streaming singing up through every bough, swelling the buds, burgeoning with tender leaves the branches; the dance of the trees in the scented winds of Spring; the drums of the jubilant rain on leafy hoods; passion of Summer sun pouring its golden flood down upon the trees; the moon passing with stately step and slow and green hands stretching up to her and drawing from her breast milk of silver fire; riot of wild gay winds with their mad pipings and strummings; - soft interlacing of boughs, the kiss of amorous leaves - all these and more, much more that McKay could not understand for it dealt with hidden, secret things for which man has no images.('The Women Of The Woods').","author":"Abraham Grace Merritt","tags":["bird","moon","natural","nature","pagan","spring","tree","trees"],"id":1513,"author_id":"Abraham+Grace+Merritt"},{"text":"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.","author":"Doug Larson","tags":["spring","shoe","you "],"id":2572,"author_id":"Doug+Larson"},{"text":"O, flower! If you bloom with love in spring, will you understand if my soul sings?","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","flower","inspirational","love-in-spring","philosophy","poem","poetry","quotes","soul-sings","spring"],"id":2993,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.","author":"Max Muller","tags":["spring","hidden","up "],"id":9490,"author_id":"Max+Muller"},{"text":"And just like a midsummer nights breeze, she ran away, into the moonlight, a fox, proud and strong. The lone wolf walked away, saddened she was gone.","author":"Jason Winchester","tags":["fall","fox","i-wrote-this-for-you","iain-thomas","proud","spring","strong","summer","winter","wolf"],"id":13487,"author_id":"Jason+Winchester"},{"text":"Those slight words and looks and touches are part of the soul's language; and the finest language, I believe, is chiefly made up of unimposing words, such as 'light,' 'sound,' 'stars,' 'music'—words really not worth looking at, or hearing, in themselves, any more than 'chips' or 'sawdust.' It is only that they happen to be the signs of something unspeakably great and beautiful. I am of opinion that love is a great and beautiful thing too, and if you agree with me, the smallest signs of it will not be chips and sawdust to you: they will rather be like those little words, 'light' and 'music,' stirring the long-winding fibres of your memory and enriching your present with your most precious past.","author":"George Eliot","tags":["language","love","spring"],"id":13999,"author_id":"George+Eliot"},{"text":"Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both large and longe! When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, in the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when the birds do sing, hey-ding-a-ding ding, cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, ta-witta-woo! And so on and so on and so on. See almost any poet between the Bronze Age and 1805.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["cliche","poetry","spring"],"id":14803,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.","author":"Angela Carter","tags":["depression","spring"],"id":16478,"author_id":"Angela+Carter"},{"text":"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.","author":"Daniel Defoe","tags":["spring","want","thankfulness "],"id":17284,"author_id":"Daniel+Defoe"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":323,"pages":33,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}