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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

5.0 · 36 votes

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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Elizabeth Bowen

WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

4.7 · 42 votes · 161 reads

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January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

4.8 · 26 votes

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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

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Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

4.1 · 28 votes

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My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

3.1 · 30 votes · 190 reads

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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

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

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W. Somerset Maugham

WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

4.5 · 29 votes · 162 reads

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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

3.6 · 42 votes

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Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
Robin Williams
ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century
4.3 · 51 votes · 11 reads
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Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow. Whoever said Spring was romantic? The word that best applies is frantic!
Anonymous
5.0 · 26 votes · 170 reads
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Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century
4.8 · 9 votes · 36 reads
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The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.6 · 19 votes · 111 reads
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Pearl S. Buck
NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century
3.4 · 53 votes · 146 reads
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To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century
4.9 · 34 votes · 117 reads
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