“ If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ”
- Anne Bradstreet- Copy
“ Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. ”
- Christina Rossetti- Copy
“ There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
“ The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ”
- John Burroughs- Copy
“ When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds. ”
- Takayuki Ikkaku Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata- Copy
“ Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
“ And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. ”
- William Bradford- Copy
“ 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 undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
“ Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ”
- Edith Sitwell- Copy
“ In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
“ Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. ”
- John Boswell- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’ ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
“ The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ”
- J.B. Priestly- Copy
“ 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- Copy
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