Air Quote by Gail Mazur

Spring starts in January in the Ozarks, lurches on in a complicated way, with spurts and setbacks, until May. Then, early in May, there…

— Sue Hubbell

On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

— Alexander Pope

Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?

— Angelus Silesius

spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go…

— Ani DiFranco

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.

— Robert Henry Newell

Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean…

— Ogden Nash

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

— Henry David Thoreau

“A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting…

— Joyce carol Oates

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer…

— Clive Barker

“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified.…

— Denis Mackail

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

— Marcus Aurelius