Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, February 25, 1912

My walk to-day was fraught with so many delightful sensations and sights that I am at a loss to know how to express them so that they will convey the almost yearning feeling of spring that possessed me when I experienced them. The weather was in every way suggestive of deep feeling and deep imaginings - clear deep blue sky, warm sun, with just enough chill in the air to give it a certain early Spring tang that stirred one peculiarly.

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, February 25, 1912, the beginning of a 46-page entry