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[oldpaintings]

Fairies, c.1840 by Francis Danby (Irish, 1793--1861)

[bodidarma]

Saint Catherine Crowned by Bartolomeo Veneto, c. 1520 (detail)

[delphianactuallydoodling]

The Lovers (2025) acrylic paint on panel

[gennsoup]

Marigolds around the step And rosemary stand, And then comes Sorrow-- And what does Sorrow care For the rosemary Or the marigolds there?

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kin to Sorrow

[classicalcanvas]

The dreamer (1840) by Caspar David Friedrich

[hiljainenlintu]

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

[heyacciaio]

Green Man (detail)

Byzantine mosaic, VI century A.D.

Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul

[quotespile]

“Things can change over time, what looks fixed and pinned and closed in a life can change and open, and what’s unthinkable and impossible at one time will easily be possible in another.”

— Ali Smith, Spring

[rosieandthemoon]

By Herman Hendrich

[petaltexturedskies]

It is spring, and the night wind is moist with the smell of turned loam and the early flowers; the moon pours out its beauty which you see as beauty finally, warm and offering everything.

Margaret Atwood, from "No Name" in Selected Poems II: 1976-1986

[classicalcanvas]

Ruined Monastery of Eldena near Greifswald by Caspar David Friedrich

[petaltexturedskies]

Now it is spring, it is just heaven here. I never dreamed it was possible to be so happy.

Sylvia Plath, in a letter to her mother Aurelia, dated 4 May 1962, from Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

[classicalcanvas]

Forest Scene (1870) by Thomas Moran

[aerizusa]

Sleeplessly I watch over the spring night— but no amount of guarding is enough to make it stay.

— Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (tr. Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani)

[classic-art-favourites]

Chateau of Mariemont by Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1611-1612.

[petaltexturedskies]

Later, it becomes February, and even later, spring returns,

Mary Oliver, from "Crows"

[classic-art-favourites]

The Titan's Goblet by Thomas Cole, 1833.