Cate McCarty

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina