“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
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American poet 1894–1962Related quotes
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Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
"Per Pacem ad Lucem".
A Chaplet of Verses (1862)
“When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere”
“They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring…”
Variant: You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
“And on the flowers
The plenteous spring a thousand streams down pours.”
E con ben mille
Zampilletti spruzzar l'erba di stille.
Canto XV, stanza 55 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746.
“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”
As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126
Se daba a todos sin seguir a nadie. Y en aquel mundo, donde casi todos siguen a todos sin darse a nadie.
Voces (1943)