80 May Quotes That Will Remind You How Romantic Spring Is

By Rainne Mendoza | Published August 14, 2022

These May quotes from writers and poets all over the world will inspire you to dream again and believe in what you pursue.

Spring is the season that sparks hope and joy the most as it promises to invigorate Earth and everyone it cradles, giving back the vibrant colors that nature had lost during the long and dreary winter.

The Rebirth that Ignites Hope

The month of May and the energy it brings when the flowers start to bloom and the grass covers the Earth proudly in its lushness are truly invigorating.

It makes us dream again and believe that what we aspire will come true.

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May quotes from writers and poets all over the world

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

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

4. “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

5. “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
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6. “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. ” – Edwin Way Teale

7. “A great difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

8. “The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.” –Nostradamus

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

10. “Must’s a schoolroom in the month of May.” – E. E. Cummings

May quotes celebrating spring

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

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

13. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler

14. “The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” – Harriet Ann Jacobs

15. “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

16. “Weet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.” – Heinrich Heine

17. “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

18. “I’m only wishing to go a-fishing; For this the month of May was made.” – Henry Van Dyke
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19. “Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.” – James Thomson

20. “But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook.” – Jodi Lynn Anderson

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May quotes that ignite hope

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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

24. “My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.” – Martin Amis

25. “May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.” – Marty Rubin

26. “Lines of baled hay / Yellowing in the sunshine / Dry May day.” – Mike Garofalo

27. “But winter lingering chills the lap of May.” – Oliver Goldsmith
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28. “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

29. “What potent blood hath modest May.” – Ralph W. Emerson

30. “A swarm of bees in May / Is worth a load of hay / A swarm of bees in June / Is worth a silver spoon / A swarm of bees in July / Is not worth a fly.” – Rhyme from England

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31. “As it fell upon a day / In the merry month of May / Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.” – Richard Barnfield

32. “May is green and pink and red” – Richard L. Ratliff

33. “I gave birth to most of them MC’s … So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother’s Day.” – Roxanne Shante

34. “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.

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

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

37. “It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.” – Sir Thomas Malory

38. “Horticulturally, the month of May is opening night, Homecoming, and Graduation Day all rolled into one.” – Tam Mossman

39. “Hebe’s here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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More May quotes and sayings

41. “The month of May has come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.” – Thomas Malory

42. “Sweet April showers, Do spring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser

43. “Hello, May. Bring us new hope and make our lives beautiful like spring flowers.” – Unknown

44. “I thought that spring must last forevermore; for I was young and loved, and it was May.” – Vera Brittain

45. “Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.” – Virgil

46. “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

47. As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.” – William Shakespeare

48. “In beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.” – William Shakespeare

49. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare

50. “Oh! That we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.” – Charles Kingsley

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51. “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

52. “The month of May has come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.” — Thomas Malory

53. I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth. — Kiera Cass

54. “When the sun is out and the wind is still, You`re one month on in the middle of May.” — Robert Frost

55. “It’s May, the lusty month of May / That darling month when everyone throws self-control away” — Alan Jay Lerner

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

57. May day is a great time to plan or put on a Spring Festival for parents. Students can sing their favorite songs, recite poems and perform the Maypole dance. — Elizabeth Cole Midgley

58. In the month of May fell many great showers of rain. — Robin Robbins

59. It was outdoor detail – and May is one fine month to be working outdoors. — Stephen King

60. Welcome, O May! O joyous month and stainless! — Alfonso X El Sabio

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Beautiful May Quotes

61. “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

62. “Winds of May, that dance on the sea, / Dancing a ring-around in glee / From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded.” — James Joyce

63. “I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: / Of April, May, or June, and July flowers. / I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, / Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.” — Robert Herrick

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

65. “May has decked the world, that we may bring the brave on land, or sea Earth’s glory on Memorial Day, the lovely meadow gifts of May.” – Annette Wynne

66. “Oh! Fragrant is the breath of May in tranquil garden closes, and soft yet regal is her sway among the springtide roses.” – William Hamilton Hayne

67. “Oh! Gladly we welcome the pleasant month of May. The month which we’ve eagerly longed to see through many a wintry day.” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

68. “May has come in, young May the beautiful, weaving the sweetest chaplet of the year. Along the eastern corridors, she walks. What time the clover rocks the earliest bee. Her feet are flush with sunrise, and her veil floating in breezy odors o’er her hair.” – Thomas Buchanan Read

69. “Fair flowers are springing beneath thy genial ray, and thousand happy birds are singing, all welcome to thee, May!” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

70. “It is the month, the jolly month. It is the jolly month of May.” – Francis Thompson

May Quotes To Remind You of The Delightful Spring Days

62. “Winds of May, that dance on the sea, / Dancing a ring-around in glee / From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded.” — James Joyce

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

65. “May has decked the world, that we may bring the brave on land, or sea Earth’s glory on Memorial Day, the lovely meadow gifts of May.” – Annette Wynne

66. “Oh! Fragrant is the breath of May in tranquil garden closes, and soft yet regal is her sway among the springtide roses.” – William Hamilton Hayne

67. “Oh! Gladly we welcome the pleasant month of May. The month which we’ve eagerly longed to see through many a wintry day.” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

69. “Fair flowers are springing beneath thy genial ray, and thousand happy birds are singing, all welcome to thee, May!” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

70. “It is the month, the jolly month. It is the jolly month of May.” – Francis Thompson

May Quotes About The Bright Colorful Spring

71. “May is a pious fraud of the almanac, / A ghastly parody of real spring.” ― James Russell Lowell

72. “And after winter folweth grene May.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer

73. “No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.” ― Samuel Johnson

74. “Cloud-piercing peak, and trackless heath, instinctive homage pay. Nor wants the dim-lit cave a wreath to honor thee, sweet May!” ― William Wordsworth

75. “O certainly, no month this is but May! / Sweet earth and sky, sweet birds of happy song, / Do make thee happy now, and thou art strong.” ― William Morris

76. “Twas May ! the spring with magic bloom / Leaped up from winter’s frozen tomb.” ― Alfred Billings Street

77. “Rose of May, the sun that you are waiting for spring has come!” ― Irene Doura-Kavadia

78. “How tender is the touch of May / While gentle winds are blowing, / And in a sweet yet silent way, / All sylvan things are growing.” ― William Hamilton Hayne

79. “My heart is light with May ! / The sky is soft ; the coming birds / Are silent on their way.” ― Mary Mapes Dodge

80. “Sweet month of Mary, month of May, / What pale pure flowerets strew thy way / Bellissima!” ― Jane Goodwin Austin

Which of these May quotes is your favorite?

The month of May is the last month of spring which captures the season in its almost perfect setting as described in these May quotes.

What’s Special About May

Aside from the perfect weather when most spring festivals and backyard parties by the patio or poolside are held, May is known for quite a few celebrations including Cinco De Mayo, May Day, Memorial Day, and of course, Mothers’ Day.

If you’re into birthstones, you already know the month of May is represented by the stone emerald which symbolizes love and success.

It was also named after the Greek goddess Maia which is the Greek goddess of fertility.