Winter Quotes

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In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid — William Shakespeare
Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain. — Robert Frost
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories,… — Charles Dickens
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the… — Samuel Johnson
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we… — Alexander Pope
Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how… — Pablo Neruda
The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. — Anne Sexton
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. — Charles Kuralt
By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard.… — Elizabeth Janeway
For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street… — Horace Greeley
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to… — Theodore Parker
It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way,… — Dorothy Wordsworth
Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news… — John Clare
The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run. — Ebenezer Elliott
I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death. — Simon Schama
I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the right place and… — Florence Henderson
Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go!… — Charles Godfrey Leland
My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment.… — Alfred Stieglitz

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