With bursts of colour and fragrant flowers blooming, spring is a season of inspiration for everyone. As the frost melts, we see new life spring from every corner of the natural world. Authors and artists have long found spring to be a time rich with creativity and hope for a new year, so here are some of the most inspirational quotes from the likes of Dickens, Margaret Atwood and Woolf, that perfectly capture the essence of the arrival of spring.

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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations)

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Spring is the time of plans and projects." (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina)

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." (Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg)

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
‘Winter is dead.’
(AA Milne, Daffodowndilly)

"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older." (Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room)

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any springtime." (Victor Hugo, Les Miserables)

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"Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps." (Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre)

"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest." (Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast)

"Spring is when life's alive in everything." (Christina Rossetti, Spring)

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