Winter Quotes - Page 5

• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Positive, Christmas

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• Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Middle

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• The life of man is a winter way.

  George Herbert

  Men, Way

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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• The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Weed, Dream, Years

  'Hellas' (1822) l. 1060

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• As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

  Jean Paul

  Birthday, Time, Age

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• There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Mlb, Two

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• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Age, Aging

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

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• But Winter has yet brighter scenes-he boasts
  Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows;
  Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods
  All flushed with many hues.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Autumn, Splendor

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• Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Lying, Long

  1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

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• In winter I get up at night
  And dress by yellow candle-light.
  In summer quite the other way,
  I have to go to bed by day.
  
  I have to go to bed and see
  The birds still hopping on the tree,
  Or hear the grown-up people's feet
  Still going past me in the street.
  
  And does it not seem hard to you,
  When all the sky is clear and blue,
  And I should like so much to play,
  To have to go to bed by day?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Spring, Past

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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• We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

  Ruth Pitter

  Wind, Mind, Clay

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

  William Blake

  Dark, Doors, Iron

  William Blake (1953). “Selected poetry and prose”, Random House Inc

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• Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Ocean, Clouds

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.98, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Pet, Stuff, Kind

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• Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

  Charles Kingsley

  Spring, Grief, Kissing

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

  William Cowper

  Years, Inverted, Rulers

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.220

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• O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

  William Cowper

  Retirement, Kings, Home

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.12

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• I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.

  Pablo Neruda

  Book, Hands, Circles

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “Winter garden”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

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• On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Valleys, Height

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy, Maximilian A. Mügge, Robert Guppy (1911). “The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The first complete and authorized English translation”

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• As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Fall, White

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• If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Summer, Garden, August

  Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). “To the People of Antioch”, p.77

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• The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Hands, Apples

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• And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

  Pietro Aretino

  Spring, Wine, Fire

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Running, Women, Heart

  Jacquetta Hawkes (1952). “A land”

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