“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”(Rainer Maria Rilke)
image: Gustav Klimt, Italian Garden Landscape
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- Christie
- Creative writer - Traveler - Archaeologist manque - Ardent lover of the play of light, the journeyings of time, things ephemeral and ancient
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ReplyDeleteit's fun.
it's like going to a party just for me.
and having more than one present to open!
and was there ever a more beautiful quote about spring than the one you've chosen here? XO♥
Happiest Spring to you! Here's another very fine quote:
Delete“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
― from "Tom Sawyer, Detective: As Told by Huck Finn" by Mark Twain
YES! a resounding YES! :)
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