Famous quotes containing the words spring, green and/or town:
“Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Lately our poets loiterd in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
—Walter Savage Landor (17751864)
“Tiresome heart, forever living and dying,
House without air, I leave you and lock your door.
Wild swans, come over the town, come over
The town again, trailing your legs and crying!”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950)