“Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still...
Iris, blue each spring”
― Shushiki, Japanese Haiku

Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

~Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

~Rumi

“In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees...
Strangers are like friends”
― Kobayashi Issa, Japanese Haiku

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Mark Twain

It was snowing here yesterday.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland

“April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves...a butterfly
Floats and balances”

― Matsuo Bashō, Japanese Haiku

These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
The total sky almost without defect,
And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone,
And yet not out by any brook or river,
But up by roots to bring dark foliage on.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods -
Let them think twice before they use their powers
To blot out and drink up and sweep away
These flowery waters and these watery flowers
From snow that melted only yesterday.

Robert Frost

by William Henry Davies

Days Too Short

 When primroses are out in Spring, 
And small, blue violets come between; 
When merry birds sing on boughs green, 
And rills, as soon as born, must sing; 

When butterflies will make side-leaps, 
As though escaped from Nature's hand 
Ere perfect quite; and bees will stand 
Upon their heads in fragrant deeps; 

When small clouds are so silvery white 
Each seems a broken rimmed moon-- 
When such things are, this world too soon, 
For me, doth wear the veil of night.

http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous_poems/short/primroses

My primroses are already blooming. last year's plants survived the winter.

“I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.

Homaro Cantu

Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quo...eywords/blossom.html

“April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves...a butterfly
Floats and balances”
― Bashō Matsuo, Japanese Haiku

You can cut all the flowers

but you cannot keep spring from arriving.

P. Neruda

Try to plant

As for a child.

A little wild cherry tree.

Japanese saying

A cloudy day during the cherry blossom season.

Whether the sound of bell at Ueno

Or Asakusa.

*Have you ever heard the sound of the temple bell? It is profound and impressive sound.

Matsuo Basho

http://www.masterpiece-of-japa...xamples-matsuo-basho

“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.” 

― Oliver Herford

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/spring

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.