Optimist

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

- Susan J. Bissonette

Flowers

Earth laughs in flowers.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Return of Spring

Spring has returned.

The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

If We Had No Winter ...

If we had no winter,
the spring would not be so pleasant:
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet

One of Those March Days ...

It was one of those March days
when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
when it is summer in the light,
and winter in the shade.

- Charles Dickens

March is Born

With rushing winds and gloomy skies
The dark and stubborn
Winter dies:
Far-off, unseen,
Spring faintly cries,
Bidding her earliest child arise;
March!

- Bayard Taylor