Snow Quotes - Page 29

• There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

  Jane Hirshfield

  Light, Doors, Red Leaves

  Jane Hirshfield (1997). “The lives of the heart”, Perennial

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• The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, School, Army

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• My boss at Christmas was a lot of fun: "I want you to look in your pay envelopes and you'll know that I keep the Christmas spirit around here. Because in each and every envelope you'll find ... snow."

  David Ketchum

  Funny, Boss, Looks

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• True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

  Edward Hoagland

  Color, Track, Solitude

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Silent night, holy
  night, when the bough flies from the tree
  and is hung everywhere, when
  from tables the crusts fly,
  when the gifts begin to tremble
  because lovelessness walks through the world,
  because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow,
  and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery,
  and the silver and gold, and a golden word
  come to you on which you choke
  because you have been sold and betrayed,
  and because it does not suffice that for you
  one is redeemed who once died.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Rip, Night, Tree

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• I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Mean, Winter, Knows

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• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  Lalla Ward

  Fog, Friendly, Towers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Life, Fall, Night

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

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• The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Memories, Sleep, First Love

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• Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

  William Wordsworth

  War, Army, March

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.9

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• There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.

  Wumen Huikai

  Summer, Spiritual, Spring

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• I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and
  blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather,
  one ancient willow managed a few gray pussy willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred
  gray background.

  Ann Zwinger

  Spring, Believe, Journey

  Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

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• Sprigs of plum by the corner of the wall
  Are blooming alone in the cold;
  If not for the subtle fragrance drifting over
  Who could tell this from snow on the boughs.

  Wang Anshi

  Wall, Spring, Plums

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• Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

  Robert Burns

  Kissing, First Kiss, Kiss Me

  Robert Burns (1994). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.547, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Young, Delicate

  William Shakespeare (1813). “Timon of Athens; Othello”

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• Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
  Do not stand at my grave and weep,
  I am not there, I do not sleep.
  I am in a thousand winds that blow,
  I am the softly falling snow.
  I am the gentle showers of rain,
  I am the fields of ripening grain.
  I am in the morning hush,
  I am in the graceful rush
  Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
  I am the star shine of the night.
  I am in the flowers that bloom,
  I am in a quiet room.
  I am in the birds that sing,
  I am in each lovely thing.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry,
  I am not there. I do not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning

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• We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Believe, Flower

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

  Tecumseh

  Summer, Powerful, Native American

  Quoted in Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

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• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

  Dan Jenkins

  Golf, Soul, Avalanches

  Dan Jenkins (2015). “DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• My heart is a garden tired with autumn,
  Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark,
  In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April,
  The drench of rains and a snow-drop quick and clear as a spark;
  Daffodils blowing in the cold wind of morning,
  And golden tulips, goblets holding the rain -
  The garden will be hushed with snow, forgotten soon, forgotten -
  After the stillness, will spring come again?

  Sara Teasdale

  Morning, Spring, Rain

  Sara Teasdale, “The Garden”

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• Something told the wild geese
  It was time to go.
  Though the fields lay golden
  Something whispered, "snow."
  Leaves were green and stirring,
  Berries, luster-glossed,
  But beneath warm feathers
  Something cautioned, "frost."
  All the sagging orchards
  Steamed with amber spice
  But each wild breast stiffened
  At remembered ice.
  Something told the wild geese
  It was time to fly-
  Summer sun was on their wings,
  Winter in their cry.

  Rachel Field

  Summer, Winter, Autumn

  Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”

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• My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.

  John Vianney

  Sweet, Prayer, Children

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• These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Fall, Justice, Silence

  "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)

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• Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.

  Wumen Huikai

  Inspirational, Summer, Time

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• The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Shoes, Soldier

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.547, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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