Quote of the Day (Thomas Wolfe, on Spring in the City)

“Spring came that year like magic and like music and like song. One day its breath was in the air, a haunting premonition of its spirit filled the hearts of men with its transforming loveliness, wreaking its sudden and incredible sorcery upon gray streets, gray pavements, and on gray faceless tides of manswarm ciphers. It came like music faint and far, it came with triumph and a sound of singing in the air, with lutings of sweet bird-cries at the break of day and the high swift passing of a wing, and one day it was there upon the city streets with its strange sudden cry of green, its sharp knife of wordless joy and pain.”—Thomas Wolfe, “The Train and the City,” in The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe, edited by Francis E. Skipp (1987)

I took the image accompanying this post this past Friday at Madison Square Park, in New York City.