Spring beckons!
-Ambrose Bierce

A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period -
When March is scarcely here
-Emily Dickinson

It was one of those March days
when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
when it is summer in the light,
and winter in the shade.
-Charles Dickens

The first day of spring is one thing
and the first spring day is another.
-Henry Van Dyke

How imperceptibly
the first springing takes place.
-Henry David Thoreau

Winter's done,

and April's in the skies,

Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!

-Charles G. D. Roberts

April prepares her green traffic light
and the world thinks Go.
-Christopher Morley

I stuck my head out the window this morning
and spring kissed me bang in the face.
-Langston Hughes

Spring is when life's alive in everything.
-Christina Rossetti

April has put in the spirit of youth
in everything.
-William Shakespeare

April is a promise
that May is bound to keep.
-Hal Borland

The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May.
-Edwin May Teale

Springtime is at hand.

When will you ever bloom,

if not here and now?
-Angelus Silesius

Blossom by blossom
the Spring begins.
-Algernon Swinburne

Spring still makes spring
in my mind.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What potent blood has modest May.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spring in the world!
And all things are made new!
-Richard Hovey

Spring: an experience in immortality

-Henry David Thoreau

Spring opens

a hundred flowers -

for whom?

-A Zen Garden

This outward spring and garden

are a reflection of the inward garden.

-Djalal ad-Din Rumi

I have embraced the summer dawn.

-Arthur Rimbaud

Summer - summer - summer!
The soundless footsteps on the grass.
-John Galsworthy

I wonder what it would be like
to live in a world where it was always June.
-Lucy Maude Montgomery

In summer,
the song sings itself.
-William Carlos Williams

In a summer season
when soft was the sun.
-William Langland

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon;
to me those have always been
the two most beautiful words in the English language.
-Henry James

Sweet roses in this summer air.
-William Shakespeare

Summertime
and the livin' is easy.
-Ira Gershwin

Wide is the carpet of summer.
-Arabic Proverb

I should like to enjoy this summer flower by flower,
as if it were to be the last one for me.
-Andre Gide

Summer has filled her veins with light
and her heart is washed with noon.
-Cecil Day-Lewis

...summer, the

"creative deluge of light and heat."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man in summer
is man intensated.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

August creates as she slumbers
replete and satisfied.
-Joseph Wood Krutch

The Long Hot Summer
-William Faulkner

Deep summer 
is when laziness finds respectability.

-Sam Keen

A red sun
Falls into the sea:
What summer heat!
-Natsume Soseki

The summer night
is like a perfection of thought.
-Wallace Stevens

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
-William Shakespeare

We have had our summer evenings
-Humbert Wolfe

August rain:
the best of the summer is gone,
and the new fall not yet born.
The odd uneven time.
-Sylvia Plath

The Indian Summer,

the dead Summer's soul.

-Mary Clemmer

Life starts all over again
when it gets crisp in the fall.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Summer passes into autumn

in some unimaginable point in time,

like the turning of a leaf.

-Henry David Thoreau

One leaf, fluttering,

tells of autumn all over the country.

-Zen Saying

Autumn is a second spring
when every leaf's a flower.
-Albert Camus

Autumn's the mellow time.

-William Allingham

Why is summer mist romantic
and autumn mist just sad?
-Dodie Smith

Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

-John Keats

It's autumn in the country I remember.
-Trumbull Stickney

Autumn, 
the year's last, loveliest smile.
-William Cullen Bryant

Delicious autumn!
My very soul is wedded to it.
-George Eliot

The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die

are the world's oldest performance art,

and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah

before the black and white silence of winter.

-Shauna Niequist

Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
fluttering from the autumn tree.
-Emily Bronte

All those golden autumn days
the sky was full of wings.
-Laura Ingles Wilder

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine
by staying in the house.
So I spend almost all the daylight hours  
in the open air.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is a harmony in autumn,
and a lustre in its sky.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

How beautiful the leaves grow old.
How full of light and color are their last days.
-John Burroughs

The dry scent of a dying garden
in September
-Theodore Roethke

- maybe a Thursday, 
like today, in autumn.
-Cesar Vallejo

Best is autumn.
It is mature, reasonable and serious.
-Valentin

Cheerful and yet profound,
like an October afternoon.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.

-Ezra Pound

Swinging on delicate hinges
the Autumn Leaf
Almost all the stem.
-Jack Kerouac

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Maple leaf falling down,
showing front, showing back.
-Ryokan

One falling leaf is not just one leaf;
it means the whole autumn.
-D. T. Suzuki

Leaves fall
where no green earth remains.
-Jia Dao

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal
to sympathy for its decay.
-Robert Browning

The heavy leaf
Falls of its own will
On this silent windless day.
-Boncho

Now is the time
for the burning of the leaves.
-Laurence Binyon

October is the fallen leaf,
but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.
-Hal Borland

The summer fades and passes and October comes.
We smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness,
a thrill of nervousness, a swift elation,
a sense of sadness and departure.
-Thomas Wolfe

A wind has blown the rain away
and blown the sky away
and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand.
I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
-e e cummings

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence, listening
To silence.
-Thomas Hood

In autumn, 
mountains loom and water runs clear.
-Ryokan

An autumn night ...
don't think your life didn't matter.
-Basho

Across an autumn freezing everywhere.
-Gwendolyn Brooks

Welcome again the darkness of winter,

You familiar soothing dusk.

-Juhani Aho

There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons -
-Emily Dickinson

It was evening all afternoon.

It was snowing

And it was going to snow.

-Wallace Stevens

Snow fallen on snow,

and this evening, the full moon

of November.

-Basho

A winter's day in a deep and dark December - 

I am alone, gazing from my window to the street below 

On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. 

-Simon and Garfunkel

It is like any other snow,
but from a different window,
and there lies the singular charm of it.
-Sylvia Plath

In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter,
Long ago.
-Christina Rossetti

Winter solitude -
in a world of one color
the sound of the wind.
-Basho

Snow has made everything earthly clear and quiet.
My mind is simple and patient.
-Tuomas Anhava

Black evening, white snow.
-Alexander Blok

I please myself with the graces

of the winter scenery.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must have a mind of winter

To regard the frost and the boughs

Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

-Wallace Stevens

Every mile is two in winter.
-George Herbert

little
and still as ice
a January flame
-John Sandbach

Winter solitude -
in a world of one color
the sound of the wind.
-Matsuo Basho

Blow, blow, thou winter wind!
-William Shakespeare

There seems to be
so much more winter than we need this year.
-Kathleen Norris

Winter is cold-hearted.
-Christina Rossetti

While I relish our warm months,
winter forms our character
and brings out our best.
-Tom Allen

Winter has made us a buoyant people -
a tough resilient breed,
able to adapt to the longest of our seasons,
to come to terms with it, to survive it -
yes, and to celebrate it.
-Pierre Berton

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.
-Henry David Thoreau

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something,
then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.
-John Knowles

Aristophanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense
that words were congealed as soon as spoken,

but after some time thawed and became audible;

so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.

-Plutarch

There is a wilder solitude in winter
When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
-May Sarton

There is still vitality under the winter snow,
even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
-Agnes Sligh Turnbull

In the winter, the world gets sharp.
Beautiful things happen.
-Peter Fiore

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter.
Who would think that those branches
would turn green again and blossom,
but we hope it, we know it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us love winter,
for it is the spring of genius.
-Pietro Aretino

In every winter's heart
there is a quivering spring.
-Kahlil Gibran

If we had no winter,
the spring would not be so pleasant.
-Anne Bradstreet

Barren winter
brings forth the fruitful spring
-The Oculatum

Winter does not leave
without a backward glance.

-Finnish Proverb

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring
that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
-Bill Nye

Winter is on my head
but eternal spring
is in my heart.
-Victor Hugo

The sun sets and the moon rises.

The moon sets and the sun rises.

Sun and moon alternate with each other,

and so brightness results.

The cold goes and the heat comes.

The heat goes and the cold comes.

Cold and heat alternate with each other

and so a year is completed.

-Yijing, The Great Treatise II