The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many
things which pass me by during the bustle of the day. First, there are the scents,
which seem even more generous with their offerings than they are in the evening.
- Rosemary Verey

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
Eric Hoffer

See! led by Morn, with dewy feet,
Apollo mounts his golden seat,
Replete with seven-fold fire;
While, dazzled by his conquering light,
Heaven's glittering host and awful night
Submissively retire.
- Thomas Taylor ("The Platonist"),
Ode to the Rising Sun

O Day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen.
- Wang Wei, On Parting with Spring

March is the month of expectation,
The things we do not know,
The Persons of Prognostication
Are coming now.
We try to sham becoming firmness,
But pompous joy
Betrays us, as his first betrothal
Betrays a boy.
- Emily Dickinson, XLVIII