Dry Erase Wall Quotes for May 2022:

May: A Month of Cheerfulness, New Romance, and to celebrate Mothers Day on you’re dry erase painted wall…

For centuries, in cultures around the world, May has been a month associated with the return of spring, the pleasures of youth, merry-making, and newfound love. In many nations, the fun and energetic spirit of May is embodied in May Day, usually celebrated on May 1st or the first Monday in May. This ancient celebration marks the first day of summer in some cultures and is still a traditional spring holiday in countries across Europe, such as the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Finland. Dancing around a tall wooden pole called a May Pole, group singing, and eating cake are typical parts of May Day festivities.

Another widely known May Day tradition still observed in Europe and North America is the crowning of the Queen of May. In the British Isles and the British Commonwealth countries, the May Queen embodies May Day, springtime, and the summer season. The May Queen is a girl chosen to ride or walk at the head of a parade during May Day celebrations while wearing a white gown that symbolizes purity and a crown of flowers. Her functions are to start off the May Day celebrations and to deliver a speech before the May Pole dancing begins.

An ideal way to maintain May’s festive mood is to write one of the following inspirational quotes related to the month on your dry erase wall each day. In this way, you can remind yourself and those around you of the joy and energy of this fun-filled time of year and uplift your spirits while working or doing other activities. The quotes can also serve as prompts to use for school language arts writing assignments. This collection of quotations reflects a wide range of thoughts and emotions about May that you can read and ponder throughout the month of nature’s vibrant rebirth.

Feelings and Reflections about May

1. “What is so sweet and dear / As a prosperous morning in May, / The confident prime of the day?”
— William Watson (English poet)

2. “You have to remember to be thankful. But in May, one simply can’t help being thankful that they are alive, if for nothing else.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canadian author)

3. “Step aside to a brand new day. In the month of May, I feel I can start again. Life is feeling new. This is hope. This is love. This is where we all won. If you call, I will hear. I will listen for you.”
– Mychal Simka (US writer and producer)

4. “The last days of May are among the longest of the year.”
— Alice Munro (Canadian short story writer), “What is Remembered” from Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

5. “You are as welcome as the flowers in May.”
– Charles Macklin (Irish actor and dramatist)

6. “In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down.”
– Haruki Murakami (Japanese writer)

7. “Marry in the month of May, And you’ll surely rue the day Married when bees o’er May blossoms flit, Strangers around your board will sit.”
―New Zealand Proverb

8. “I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.”
— Kiera Cass (US writer of young adult fiction)

9. “May has decked the world, that we May bring the brave on land or sea Earth’s glory on Memorial Day, The lovely meadow gifts of May.”
—Annette Wynne (US children’s poet)

May and New Romance

10. “In the marvelous month of May, when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise.”
– Heinrich Heine (German poet and literary critic)

11. “It was the month of May, the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trusts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.”
— Sir Thomas Malory (English writer)

12. “Ah, in those earliest days of love, how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.”
– Marcel Proust (French novelist, critic, and essayist)

13. “Hail bounteous May that does inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire, woods, and groves, are of thy dressing, Hill and Dale, do boast thy blessing.”
– John Milton (English poet), Song on May Morning

14. “The month of May was come, when every lusty heart begins to blossom and to bring forth fruit.”
– Sir Thomas Malory (English writer)

15. “O, the month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! O, and then did I unto my true love say, Thou shalt be my Summer’s Queen.”
– Thomas Dekker (English dramatist and pamphleteer)

16. “He wrote her name in the sand Never even let go of her hand Somehow they stayed that way For those five days in May.”
– James Cuddy and Greg Keelor (Canadian singer/songwriters)

17. “It’s May, the lusty month of May / That darling month when everyone throws self-control away.”
– Alan Jay Lerner (US lyricist and librettist)

18. “Beneath the apple blossoms / I go a wintry way, / For love that smiled in April / Is false to me in May.”
– Sara Teasdale (US lyric poet)

19. “Now is the month of maying, When merry lads are playing Each with his bonny lass Upon the greeny grass.”
– Thomas Morley (English composer, theorist, singer, and organist)

May and Mother Nature

20. “And after winter follows green May.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer (English poet, author, and civil servant)

21. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
– William Shakespeare (English playwright and poet)

22. “May is green and pink and red.”
– Richard L. Ratliff (US author and poet)

23. “And a bird overhead sang Follow, And a bird to the right sang Here; And the arch of the leaves was hollow,
And the meaning of May was clear.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne (English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic)

24. “It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green when buds ripened, and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness.”
– Sir Thomas Malory (English writer)

25. “We roamed the fields and riversides, When we are young and gay; We chased the bees and plucked the flowers, In the merry, merry month of May.”
– Stephen Foster (US composer and songwriter)

26. “When the sun is out and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May.”
– Robert Frost (US poet)

27. “May and June, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights.”
– H. Peter Loewer (US writer of gardening and natural history books)

28. “May! Queen of blossoms, / And fulfilling flowers, / With what pretty music / Shall we charm the hours?”
– Lord Edward Thurlow (British lawyer and politician)

29. “I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: / Of April, May, or June, and July flowers. / I sing of May poles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, / Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.”
– Robert Herrick (English lyric poet and Anglican cleric)

30. “Winds of May, that dance on the sea, / Dancing a ring-around in glee / From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded.”
– James Joyce (Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic)