Morning, Takayuki Ikkaku

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!

- Takayuki IKKAKU

Autumn, Eric Sloane

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

- Eric Sloane (1905-1985)

Autumn, P. D. James

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

- P. D. James (1920- ), [A Taste for Death Published 1986. Page 373]

Season, Henry Beston

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

- Henry Beston

Summer, Celia Thaxter

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

- Celia Thaxter (1835-1894)

Summer, Wallace Stevens

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Spring, George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

- George Santayana (1863-1952)

May, Love

He has a very hard heart that does not love in May.

- French Proverb

Season, Bill Gates

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

- Bill Gates (1955- )

Spring, Henry Timrod

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

- Henry Timrod (1828–1867)

Spring, Emily Dickinson

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)

Winter, Christina Rossetti

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

- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Winter, Willa Cather

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

- Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Winter, William Bradford

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

- William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor, 1590-1657)

Winter, Albert Camus

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Winter, Percy Bysshe Shelley

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

겨울이 오면 봄도 멀지 않으리.

- 퍼시 셸리

Winter, Charles Kingsley

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

- Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

Winter, William Shakespeare

Blow, blow, thou winter wind. Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Winter, Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

Winter, Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

- Robert Frost (1874-1963)