1,207 Quotes About Spring




  • Author Thomas Wolfe
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    [F]or he had heard an inarticulate promise: he has been pierced by Spring, that sharp knife. And life unscales its rusty weathered pelt, and earth wells out in tender exhaustless strength, and the cup of a man’s heart runs over with dateless expectancy, tongueless promise, indefinable desire. Something gathers in the throat, something blinds him in the eyes, and faint and valorous horns sound through the earth.

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  • Author Michelle Franklin
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    I am heartily glad that the trees and plants are still interested in copulatory activities; I only wishthey would be so good as to keep their sperm away from my face. Do not pretend that pollen isanything else; it transfers haploid male genetic material and sullies the bedclothes unmercifully.

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