Winter Quotes - Page 2

• Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

  Virginia Woolf

  Good Night, Sound, Melancholy

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Jacob's Room”, p.46, Booklassic

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Blow, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Hurt, Spring

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• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

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• Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Country, Snow, Solitude

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• In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Fire, Long Ago

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Year's end, all
  corners of this
  floating world, swept.

  Matsuo Basho

  Holiday, Years, Floating

  Matsuo Basho, “Year’s End,”

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• Nothing burns like the cold.

  George R. R. Martin

  Cold, Cool Weather, Funny Winter

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.16, Bantam

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• Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

  T. S. Eliot

  Snow, Covering, Earth

  The Waste Land l. 5 (1922)

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• I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Fall, Autumn, Waiting

  Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

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• Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Inspirational, Occupation, Seasons

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• The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

  e. e. cummings

  White, Snow, Giving

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

  George R. R. Martin

  Friendship, Summer, Grandmother

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.1034, Bantam

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• A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Wind, Snow

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• What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Light, Miracle, Glimpse

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.370

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• There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

  Bill Watterson

  Bad Mood, Cold, January

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• Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
  And after summer evermore succeeds
  Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
  So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Clouds, Joy

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.147

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• Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

  Pietro Aretino

  Spring, Jugs, Genius

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• So with the stretch of the white road before me,
  Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun,
  Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows,
  Strong with the strength of my horse as we run.
  Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight!
  Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

  Amy Lowell

  Running, Strong, Horse

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

  Ogden Nash

  Kings, Sorry, Cake

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• One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

  Robert Hass

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  Carl Reiner

  Nature, Weather, Snow

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Snow, Special, Quality

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