Inspirational Quotations About May

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These quotations illustrate the month of May.

"A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?" - Sara Teasdale, May Day

"It's May! It's May! The lusty month of May! Those dreary vows that ev'ryone makes, Ev'ryone breaks. Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes! The lusty month of May!" - Lerner and Lowe

Quotations Describing the Weather in May:

"The wind is tossing the lilacs, The new leaves laugh in the sun .. Beneath the apple blossoms I go a wintry way, For love that smiled in April Is false to me in May." - Sara Teasdale "Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest." - Matsuo Basho

Sentiments About May in Quotations

Quotes and sayings that describe emotions evoked by the month of May:

• "May is a pious fraud of the almanac." - James R. Lowell, 1819 - 1891
• "I sowed the seeds of love, It was all in the spring, In April, May, and June, likewise, When small birds they do sing." - Fleetwood Habergham
• The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth." - William Cullen Bryant
• "The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May." - Sir Thomas Malory
• "A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly." An English Rhyme

Quotations About the Closing Days of May

Then as May draws to an end, there's always the guarantee that June will follow as the in the following quote by Peter Loewer: "May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin."

Sources:

Knowles, E. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. OUP Oxford 2004 Andrews, R. The New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations. Penguin 2006