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Xiao Hong
“In our part of the country, spring passes quickly. If you haven't been out for five days, you find the trees in bud. If you don't see the trees for another five days, you discover that they've put out leaves. In another five days, they're so green you wouldn't recognize them. It makes you wonder: Can these be the same trees I saw a few days before? And you answer yourself: Of course they are. That's how fast spring goes by. You can almost see it. From far away it comes racing toward you. And when it reaches you it whispers in your ear, 'I'm here,' and then runs swiftly on.

Spring - what a rush it's in. Every place seems to be urging it to come. If it delays its arrival a bit, the sunlight fades and the earth turns to stone. Trees especially can't endure any delay. Let spring dally even briefly on the way, and many lives are lost. ("Spring In A Small Town")”
― Xiao Hong, Selected Stories of Xiao Hong
tags: spring

“I love the smell of rain and growing things.”
― Serina Hernandez

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

Debasish Mridha
“Spring shows the power and love of the earth; she can grow magnificent flowers from the dirt.”
― Debasish Mridha

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

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