A few spring quotes and spring poems for your enjoyment. 🙂

March bustles in on windy feet
And sweeps my doorstep and my street.
She washes and cleans with pounding rains,
Scrubbing the earth of winter stains.
She shakes the grime from carpet green
Till naught but fresh new blades are seen.
Then, house in order, all neat as a pin,
She ushers gentle springtime in.

– Susan Reiner, Spring Cleaning

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
– Proverb from Guinea

Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep-desired, long-awaited spring.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.
– Nadine Stair

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, Meditations Divine and Moral, 1655

“Earth laughs in flowers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

WELCOME TO SPRING

We must live through the dreary winter
If we would value the spring;
And the woods must be cold and silent
Before the robins sing.
The flowers must be buried in darkness
Before they can bud and bloom,
And the sweetest, warmest sunshine
Comes after the storm and gloom.

–Anonymous

(Most of the graphics are from an old set from Graphic Garden.)