March is a month of contrasts — bright sunlight and biting wind, quiet endings and hopeful beginnings. It’s the turning point between winter and spring, when the world feels both restless and ready. Writers and poets have long captured this in-between season in unforgettable lines about change, renewal, and the promise of warmer days.
In this collection of famous quotes about March, you’ll find literary reflections from beloved authors who understood exactly what makes March so powerful — unpredictable, poetic, and full of possibility.
- William Wordsworth
“March brings breezes loud and shrill,
Stirs the dancing daffodil.” - Charles Dickens
“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.” - Emily Dickinson
“Dear March – Come in –
How glad I am –
I hoped for you before.” - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“March is a month of considerable frustration — it is so near spring and yet so far.” - Lewis Grizzard
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” - Christina Rossetti
“Thaw wind, thaw wind,
Blow through the blackthorn, blow!” - Algernon Charles Swinburne
“In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” - Robert Frost
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The earth laughs in flowers.” - Hal Borland
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” - Ernest L. Thayer
“Thou art the Month of Winds, and thou art fair.” - Vita Sackville-West
“The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.” - Emily Dickinson
“March is the month of expectation.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” - Geoffrey Chaucer
“When March has pierced to the root…” - John Updike
“Sun and wind and the burst of green — that is March.” - L. M. Montgomery
“That is one good thing about this world… there are always sure to be more springs.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” - William Shakespeare
“The cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Ah, March! We know thou art
Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks.”
