(1291 quotes found)
“Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk”
Bill Nye
“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”
Louis Untermeyer
“Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king”
Edmund Spenser
“All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
Daniel Defoe
“...the spring, the summer,The chilling autumn, angry winter, changeTheir wonted liveries; and the mazed worldBy their increase, now knows not which is which.”
William Shakespeare
“There was a knight came riding by / In early spring, when the roads were dry; / And he heard that lady sing at the noon, / Two red roses across the moon.”
William Morris
“Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.”
Christopher Marlowe
“A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.”
Bible
“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.”
Ambrose Bierce
