Quote #140769
Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.
Byron Caldwell Smith
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line celebrates spring’s arrival as an emotional and sensory turning point: warmth and brightness (“April suns”) return, but they are inseparable from transience and change (“shadow of April showers”). By pairing “soft laughter” with “shadow,” the sentence suggests renewal that is gentle rather than triumphant—joy tempered by the lingering memory of winter or hardship. The phrasing also leans on a familiar seasonal symbolism in which April marks both awakening and instability, implying that hope often comes mixed with uncertainty. As a standalone aphoristic sentence, it works as a lyrical announcement of reprieve: a long-awaited season—literal or metaphorical—has finally arrived.




