Hal Borland Quotes about Spring

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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Spring, Keeping Promises, May

The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.

Hal Borland

Spring, Real, Paper

Hal Borland (1967). “Hill Country Harvest”

March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.

Hal Borland

Spring, Hair, Shoes

Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.

Hal Borland

Strong, Spring, Rain

Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York