Spring quotes

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.