There may be a big difference between the first day of spring and the first spring day, but that didn't dim the enthusiasm here when Spring officially tip-toed in at 5:58 PM Eastern time today. So here is a collection of quotes and poems to celebrate the day.

No winter lasts forever. No spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep. – Hal Borland

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming – Pablo Neruda

Spring is the time of plans and projects. – Leo Tolstoy

Some old fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat – Laura Ingalls Wilder

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. – Audrey Hepburn

I must have flowers always and always. – Claude Monet

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese proverb

The world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful – e e cummings

Good bye winter, so long snow. It’s time to watch the flowers grow. – Unknown

Spring is when life is alive in everything. – Christina Rosetti

A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king. – Emily Dickinson

The year’s at the spring. The day’s at the morn.
Morning’s at seven. The hillside’s dew pearled.
The lark’s on the wing. The snail’s on the thorn.
God’s in his heaven.  All’s right with the world.
                                       – Robert Browning

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. – Ellis Peters

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. – William Shakespeare

Flowers are happy things. – P G Wodehouse

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a garden. – Ruth Stout