Dutch Quote by Alice Hoffman

“Out of the fresh little green hearts of their foliage the lilacs raised inquisitively over the fence of the park their plumes of white…

— Marcel Proust

Lilacs are May in essence.

— Jean Hersey

Just now the lilac is in bloom All before my little room.

— Rupert Brooke

“My birthday is in March, and that year it fell during an especially bright spring week, vivid and clear in the narrow residential streets…

— Aimee Bender

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd,…

— Walt Whitman

“IT HAD NEVER been such a beautiful May. Every day the sky shone a peerless blue, untouched by cloud. Already, the gardens were crammed…

— Rachel Joyce

“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept…

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

— Jody Watley

The wind is tossing the lilacs, The new leaves laugh in the sun, And the petals fall on the orchard wall, But for me…

— Sara Teasdale

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.

— Sara Coleridge

The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and…

— Dan Simmons

“There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part…

— Walt Whitman