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Spring Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
- Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
- But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or…
- For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent.…
- Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth…
- Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms…
- In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting,…
More Spring Quotes
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. — Lucille Ball
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac
- Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. — Clive Barker
- We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion… — Mario Batali
- Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a… — Scott Adams
- A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce