Quotes About May

Celebrating the month of bloom

The April showers are drying up and the May flowers are beginning to bloom from the wet nourishment they drank in last month. Firmly in spring, May is the month of bloom and these quotes celebrate the fragrant beauty.

1. “Who first beholds the light of day In spring’s sweet flowery month of May And wears an emerald all her life Shall be a loved and happy wife.” -Anonymous

2. “Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.” -Karen Joy Fowler

3. “What potent blood hath modest May.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “At last came the golden month of the wild folk — honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.” -Samuel Scoville Jr.

5. “The word May is a perfumed word….It means youth, love, song; and all that is beautiful in life.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6. “You are as welcome as the flowers in May.” -Charles Macklin

7. “Make hay in May for you may never know what June is coming with and you may never know what July will present! When you see May, make hay!” -Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

8. “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” -Edwin Way Teale

9. “Bright May afternoons — mango trees in the garden echoed with cuckoo calls.” -Meeta Ahluwalia

10. “Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! Why has happiness no second Spring?” -Charlotte Smith

11. “Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.” -Marcel Proust

12. “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.” -H. Peter Loewer

13. “The last days of May are among the longest of the year.” -Alice Munro

14. “In beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.” -William Shakespeare

15. “Ah! My heart is weary waiting. Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! My heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.” -Denis Florence McCarthy

16. “I’m only wishing to go a-fishing; For this the month of May was made.” -Henry Van Dyke

17. “May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” -Fennel Hudson

18. “What is so sweet and dear As a prosperous morn in May, The confident prime of the day.” -William Watson

19. “May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers With what pretty music, Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed, In the green bowers?” -Edward Thurlow

20. “‘Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

21. “May: The lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.” -Marty Rubin

22. “May, the first of summer months, and of old famous for floral games….” -Henry James Slack

23. “Long stormy springtime, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.” -Thomas Carlyle

24. “But winter lingering chills the lap of May.” -Oliver Goldsmith

25. “The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer.” -Lady Gregory

26. “May. — The very word makes the heart leap. Birds, Buds, Blossoms, Beauty! Break away from every bondage of circumstance or low spirits and go out into the sunshine. Answer back the bird-note in your heart, kiss your finger tips to every new blossom, and be a part of the spring.” -Eva D. Kellogg

27. “Step aside to a brand new day, in the month of May I feel, I can start again. Life is feeling new, this is hope, this is love, this is where we all won, if you call, I will hear, I will listen for you.” -Mychal Simka

28. “There is but one May in the year, And sometimes May is wet and cold; There is but one May in the year Before the year grows old.” -Christina Georgina Rossetti

29. “May is green and pink and red.” -Richard L. Ratliff

30. “You can have all the rest of the year if you will give me April and May.” -Spanish proverb

31. “Must’s a schoolroom in the month of May.” -E.E. Cummings

32. “Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day.” -Francis Quarles

33. “There is a sweetness of May verging on June that no other time in the whole year can equal. And by sweetness is meant more than flower fragrance or honey taste; this is the greater sweetness of understanding and emotion, the glow of pleasure in being.” -Hal Borland

34. “Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses. A box where sweets compacted lie.” -George Herbert

35. “The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.” -Thomas Malory

36. “And after winter folweth grene May.” -Geoffrey Chaucer

37. “May Day is never allowed to pass in this community without profuse lamentations over the tardiness of our spring as compared with that of England and the poets.” -Thomas Wentworth Higginson

38. “Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you.” -W.E. Johns

39. “I thought that spring must last forevermore; For I was young and loved, and it was May.” -Vera Brittain

40. “And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk.” -Thomas Hardy

41. “Spring breezes drift and tiny May birds chirp in morning’s dawn-lit heart.” -Terri Guillemets

42. “In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.” -Heinrich Heine

43. “As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.” -William Shakespeare

44. “May can be a month of sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny noses.” -Ellen Jackson

45. “When the sun is out and the wind is still, You’re one month on in the middle of May.” -Robert Frost

46. “O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions — sweeter days are thine!” -Helen Hunt Jackson

47. “The month of May comes differently in cities: not for us white blossom on the hedgerows, bluebells in the woods — instead the sun’s rays burnish bricks and mellow pavements; seeds burst into flower in the cracks between the stones; speedwell and bindweed bloom among the rubble.” -Heidi Thomas

48. “Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.” -James Thomson

49. “Beneath the apple blossoms I go a wintry way, For love that smiled in April Is false to me in May.” -Sara Teasdale

50. “When April steps aside for May, like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; fresh violets open every day: to some new bird each hour we listen.” -Lucy Larcom

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