--- title: "3 April Quotes By Hal Borland" description: "3 April quotes by Hal Borland. Plus more from Hal Borland and more April sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/hal-borland-9706_april_the-longer-i-live-and-the-more-i-read-th_1392846.jpg" --- > [The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/the-longer-i-live-and-the-more-i-read-the-more-certain-i-become-that/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/hal-borland-9706_april_the-longer-i-live-and-the-more-i-read-th_1392846.jpg) > [April is a promise that May is bound to keep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/april-is-a-promise-that-may-is-bound-to-keep/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/hal-borland-9706_april_april-is-a-promise-that-may-is-bound-to_1813389.png) > [No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/no-winter-lasts-forever-no-spring-skips-its-turn-april-is-a-promise/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/hal-borland-9706_april_no-winter-lasts-forever-no-spring-skips_3069542.png) ## Other authors on April - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/april/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sara-teasdale-83142.jpg) Sara Teasdale 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/april/sara-teasdale/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-f-scott-fitzgerald-34497.jpg) F. Scott Fitzgerald 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/april/f-scott-fitzgerald/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edna-st-vincent-millay-31633.jpg) Edna St. Vincent Millay 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/april/edna-st-vincent-millay/) ## More by Hal Borland > [Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/some-people-are-like-ants-give-them-a-warm-day-and-a-piece-of-ground/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/weekend-planning-is-a-prime-time-to-apply-the-deathbed-priority-test/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/if-you-would-know-strength-and-patience-welcome-the-company-of-trees/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/of-all-the-everyday-plants-of-the-earth-grass-is-the-least/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/a-frontier-is-never-a-place-it-is-a-time-and-a-way-of-life/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [ \[The Christmas story\] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/the-christmas-story-is-as-simple-as-was-the-man-himself-and-his/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/any-river-is-really-the-summation-of-a-whole-valley-it-shapes-not/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/man-is-wise-and-constantly-in-quest-of-more-wisdom-but-the-ultimate/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/there-are-some-things-but-not-too-many-toward-which-the-countryman/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/there-is-a-leisure-about-walking-no-matter-what-pace-you-set-that/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/the-earth-s-distances-invite-the-eye-and-as-the-eye-reaches-so-must/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/the-earth-turns-and-the-seasons-and-for-all-his-pride-and-power-man/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/a-snowdrift-is-a-beautiful-thing-if-it-doesn-t-lie-across-the-path/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [“You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/you-cn-t-be-suspicious-of-a-tree-accuse-a-bird-or-squirrel-of/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) > [If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/if-the-voice-of-the-brook-was-not-the-first-song-of-celebration-it/) [Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/april/hal-borland/#itemlist", "name": "3 April Quotes By Hal Borland", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. 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