Winter Quotes - Page 32

• Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn’t miss for the world.

  Michael Crummey

  Hangover, Missing, Over You

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• I soared above the song birds
  And never heard them sing
  I lived my life in winter
  And then you brought the spring

  Randall Wallace

  Song, Spring, Bird

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• When I breathe,
  This sound in my chest
  Lonelier than the winter wind

  Takuboku Ishikawa

  Wind, Sound, Breathe

  Takuboku Ishikawa (2011). “Romaji Diary and Sad Toys”, p.134, Tuttle Publishing

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• In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It's not in the bar or the gym or the platform it's in you.

  Nicu Vlad

  America, Needs, Bars

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• We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'

  Bunker Roy

  Motivation, Husband, Inspiration

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• Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Broken Heart, Home, Dark

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• Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... Silence reigns everywhere ... Oh come back! Already the shepherds and their flocks call for you! Come back soon, or it will be winter in May.

  Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

  Broken Heart, Sky, Silence

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• I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

  Rod McKuen

  Broken Heart, Memories, Sunday

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• Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Morning, Sleep, Cat

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• The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.

  Cressida Cowell

  Hero, Heart, Fighting

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• I remember that winter because it had brought the heaviest snows I had ever seen. Snow had fallen steadily all night long and in the morning I woke in a room filled with light and silence, the whole world seemed to be held in a dream-like stillness. It was a magical day... and it was on that day I made the Snowman.

  Raymond Briggs

  Dream, Morning, Night

  "Fictional character: Older James". "The Snowman", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.

  David Oshinsky

  Boys, America, Race

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• I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

  Dick Pound

  Crowds, Olympics, Firsts

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• All life requires a rhythm of rest. . .
  There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm as the active growth of spring and summer is quieted by the necessary dormancy of fall and winter. There is a tidal rhythm, a deep, eternal conversation between the land and the great sea.

  Wayne Muller

  Summer, Morning, Spring

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.12, Bantam

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• Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer

  Jenny Han

  Summer, June, August

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Morning, Spring, Night

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• In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Inward, Cottages

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.54, Penguin

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• When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

  Philip Roth

  Children, Believe, Momma

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• Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.

  Haddon W. Robinson

  Today, Next, Ants

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• The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Fire, Comfort

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.38

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• Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

  Paul Theroux

  Recovery, Preparation, Seasons

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• What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

  John Burroughs

  Artist, Canvas, Pigment

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Rain, Clouds

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• Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

  Du Fu

  Beautiful, Spring, Flower

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• Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

  Bai Juyi

  Autumn, Dark, Two

  Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (1)”

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