quotations about winter
These northern-tier countries are populated by a bunch of generally happy people who not only tolerate winter but have come up with strategies for embracing it.
STEFANIE PETTIT
"Front Porch: For some, winter is a time of joy", The Spokesman-Review, March 15, 2017
Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.
SARA RAASCH
Snow Like Ashes
But winter is also respite. All of God's creatures rest, and recoup, and prepare for the spring to come. And when it does, life bursts forth.
IRWIN KRAUS
"Winter is a season of activity, a season of respite", Sun Chronicle, February 11, 2016
When the ice is gone winter is gone. When that shelf ice fails and falls winter does not come back no matter how cold it may get. The ice crumbles and calves as the winter falters and fails. When the ice shelf is gone the backbone of winter is fractured, forget what the calendar says.
MITCH MODE
"Outdoor Adventure", Star Journal, March 17, 2017
Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
The Sugar Queen
Although each season brings its own rewards, winter is probably my favorite time of year. For someone who loves fresh fruit and vegetables as much as I do, this may be surprising, but I actually find it an inspiring time to be a cook. Although produce is scarce, especially toward the end of the season, I look forward to the challenge of cooking with winter foods. What I love most about winter is that everyone is actually hungry. I don't need to tempt overheated diners with delicate salads and cooling soups. When the weather is treacherous, we seek out real comfort--and real food.
LAURA FRANKEL
Jewish Cooking for All Seasons
When winter blows in, don't pull the blankets over your head and go back to sleep! Suit up to head out for an outdoor winter adventure!
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
"Keep Exercising During Winter to Prevent Heart Disease", Hartford Courant, February 13, 2016
The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
"Frost at Midnight"
The Winter frowned
Its icy eyebrows
FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE
"Mourning", Dark Snow: Poems
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
Assumes control of fate's immortal loom.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
"Paris Spleen"
Where has thou been all the dumb winter days
When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers,
Neither life, nor love, nor frolic,
Only expanse melancholic,
With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?
ALFRED AUSTIN
"A Spring Carol", Soliloquies in Song
Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.
WILLIAM A. QUAYLE
"Headed Into Spring", The Sanctuary, March 17, 1921
The weeks will grow progressively warmer, the grass will green, and spring will come. These tales of winter will fade quickly. Memories of shoveling and skiing and snowmobiling and snowshoeing will meld into gardening and sailing, golfing and other summer pursuits. It happens every year. And we are blessed to experience each one.
IRWIN KRAUS
"Winter is a season of activity, a season of respite", Sun Chronicle, February 11, 2016
Do you remember the winter days
When we piled up the leaves and made them blaze,
While the blue smoke curled, in the frosty air,
Up the great wan trunks that rose gaunt and bare,
And we clapped our hands, and the rotten bough
Came crackling down to our feet, as now?
ALFRED AUSTIN
"The Last Night", At the Gate of the Convent and Other Poems
Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
O flakes of snow,
For which, through naked trees, the winds
A-mourning go?
Or are ye angels, bearing home
The host unseen
Of truant spirits, to be clad
Again in green?
JOHN BANISTER TABB
"Phantoms", Poems
See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad, with all his rising train;
Vapors, and Clouds, and Storms.
JAMES THOMSON
"Winter", The Seasons
The punishing winter is over. The sky is blue, the air is fresh, the grass is green and people are lying around in bikinis, sunbathing and having barbeques.
REBECCA REID
"Where to spend your sunny lunch break", Metro, April 11, 2017
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
Saint's Tragedy
Winter also teaches frugality; it forces you to plan ahead and exposes human frailty like no other season.
ANDERS SWANSON
"Ice cycles: the northerly world cities leading the winter bicycle revolution", The Guardian, February 12, 2016
There is a grandeur in winter, stern and wild it may be, but a grandeur which speaks to the soul.
C. J. PETERSON
attributed, Day's Collacon