Quote of the Day (Theodore Roethke, on a Landscape Wearing ‘An April Look’)

“Soon field and wood will wear an April look.
The frost be gone, for green is breaking now;
The ovenbird will match the vocal brook,
The young fruit swell upon the pear-tree bough.
 
“And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,
The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,
Will turn its private substance into green,
And young shoots spread upon our inner world.” —Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), "My Papa's Waltz" (1942) from Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (1961)