“Spring has returned,” wrote Rilke. “The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” The arrival of spring is an ineffable joy. It brings colour, life and warmth to a world that has spent months sitting cowed under the chilly weight of winter. People slough off their thick coats and surly expressions, and start brandishing prematurely bare legs and occasionally smiling at their fellow travellers on public transport. For Tolstoy, “Spring is the time of plans and projects”; for Ernest Hemingway,…
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