Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan,
Jr.
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
I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the
landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something
waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth
It
is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the
frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
~John Burroughs,
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, "Paysage,"
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. ~J.R. Stockton
What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ~Author Unknown
Are
the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty,
in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that
the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into
ruins. ~Gustave Flaubert
The
shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the
trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled
of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their
clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of woodsmoke, of distances and
passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across
the pewter afternoons. ~James Carlos Blake,
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.
It is no season in which to wander the world as if one were the wind
blowing aimlessly along the streets without a place to rest, without
food, and without time meaning anything to one, just as time means
nothing to the wind. ~Edith Sitwell
It
is said that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that
words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time thaw and
become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next
summer. ~Author Unknown
Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. ~Terri Guillemets
Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,
Thou art not so unkind, as Man's Ingratitude...
~William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie An Affair to Remember, written by Delmer Daves, Donald Ogden Stewart, Leo McCarey, and Mildred Cram
The
simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such
a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere,
is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher
coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust
of bread. ~John Burroughs
Winter
is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was
in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~Author Unknown
It
is a spur that one feels at this season more than at any other. How
nimbly you step forth! The woods roar, the waters shine, and the hills
look invitingly near. You do not miss the flowers and the songsters, or
wish the trees or fields any different, or heavens any nearer. Every
object pleases.... the straight light-gray trunks of the trees... how
curious they look, and as if surprised in undress. ~John Burroughs,
"Winter Sunshine"
The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Terri Guillemets
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne
The
autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked.
Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air—a mixture of
night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves.... the
crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness
above them. ~Neil Gaiman, Stardust
Winter,
then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran
unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle
violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching
trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of
animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And
what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering
that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept
them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells. ~Mark Helprin,
Winter's Tale, 1983
Nature
looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She
withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer
and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to
prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth.
~Hugh Macmillan
He
who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause
for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have
rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the
heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. ~John Burroughs
We
feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And
if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like
the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the Aurora, or best of
all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold
for that. ~Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
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