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  • Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : John Milton Quotes , Spring Quotes , Book Quotes
  • If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Spring Quotes
  • I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Spring Quotes
  • Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Spring Quotes , Past Quotes
  • You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Life Quotes , Spring Quotes
  • You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ovid Quotes , Song Quotes , Spring Quotes
  • Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Depression Quotes , Spring Quotes
  • I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).' I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting. This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros's compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adrian Matejka Quotes , Art Quotes , Spring Quotes