Quotes about the months of the year
1.NOVEMBER I have come to regard November as the older, harder
man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler
temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It
is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of
summer's death as winter tightens its grip.-Henry Rollins The month
of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an
effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more
meaningfully.Henry Rollins
2.DECEMBER God gave us memory so that we might have roses in
December.James M. Barrie
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are
May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are
wives.William Shakespeare
3.JANUARY Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long
days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next
January.Hal Borland "There is a privacy about it which no other
season gives you ..... In spring, summer and fall people sort of
have an open season on each other; only in the winter, inthe
country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor
belonging to yourself." Ruth Stout
4.FEBRUARY "February is merely as long as is needed to pass the
time until March."-Dr. J. R. Stockton "February is a suitable month
for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so
that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems
preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter
hateful, hanging on too long."- Anna Quindlen
5.MARCH "All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lairThe
bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,And Winter slumbering in
the open air,Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring."- Samuel
Taylor Coleridge "The air is like a butterflyWith frail blue
wings.The happy earth looks at the skyAnd sings."-Joyce
Kilmer,Spring
6.APRIL "April's rare capricious loveliness."- Julia Dorr "April
is the cruelest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land,
mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain."- T.
S. Eliot
7.MAY "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."- Peter Loewer "The world's favorite season is the
spring.All things seem possible in May."- Edwin Way Teale8.JUNE It
is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise- Mark
Twain "If a June night could talk,it would probably boast it
invented romance."-Bern Williams
9.JULY "The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,Through the
flashing bars of July."- Francis Thompson "The summer morn is
bright and fresh, the birds are darting byAs if they loved to
breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky."- William C.
Bryant
10.AUGUST "In summer, the song sings itself."- William Carlos
Williams "August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied."-
Joseph Wood Krutch
11.SEPTEMBER "But now in September the garden has cooled, and
with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating
on my head ... The harvest has dwindled, and I have grown apart
from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on."-
Robert Finch "By all these lovely tokensSeptember days are
here,With summers best of weatherAnd autumns best of cheer."- Helen
Hunt Jackson12.OCTOBER I'm so glad I live in a world where there
are Octobers.L.M. Montgomery The crickets still sing in October.
And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the
shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.Kevin
Dalton
