quotations about April
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S. ELIOT
The Waste Land
At the far end of the bakery, our canvas curtain heralded April's lime and coconut theme.
JUDITH FERTIG
The Memory of Lemon
April love is all the seven wonders
One little kiss can tell you this is true
PAT BOONE
"April Love"
I have seen the lady April bringing the daffodils,
Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.
JOHN MASEFIELD
Beauty
When April rain had laughed the land
Out of its wintry way,
And coaxed all growing things to greet
With gracious garb the May.
SHAEMAS O'SHEEL
While April Rain Went By
April's amazing meaning doubtless lies
In tall, hoarse boys and slips
Of slender girls with suddenly wider eyes
And parted lips.
GEORGE DILLON
April's Amazing Meaning
Sweet April! many a thought
Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
An April Day
The children with the streamlets sing,
When April stops at last her weeping;
And every happy growing thing
Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping.
LUCY LARCOM
The Sister Months
Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!
W. H. GIBSON
Pastoral Days
Couldn't they do away with April
Leave no space, so there's no trace of April
Couldn't they take March
And make it twice as long
'Cause when April finds me
April will just remind me
Of a love that went wrong
(Dunno why it just went wrong)
SARAH VAUGHAN
"Do Away With April"
Every tear is answered by a blossom,
Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,
Apple-blooms upon the breezes toss them.
April knows her own, and is content.
SUSAN COOLIDGE
April
We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
This Side of Paradise
When well-apparel'd April on the heel
Of limping winter treads.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
And blossoming boughs of April in laughter shake:
Awake, O heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
ROBERT BRIDGES
Awake, My Heart
To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
"Spring", Second April
Proud-pied April dress'd in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnets
April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter;
Then, the moment after,
Weep thy girlish tears!
WILLIAM WATSON
Song
Winter's done, and April's in the skies,
Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes.
CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS
An April Adoration
Sweet April's tears,
Dead on the hem of May.
ALEXANDER SMITH
A Life of Drama
When that April with his showers sweet,
The drought of March hath pierced to the root,
And bathed every vein in such liquor,
Of which virtue engender'd is the flower.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales