Snowdrops Quote by Katherine Arden

“To him, she was like a flower that bloomed in the snow. Thriving under conditions in which nothing could grow. To some, she was…

— A.Y. Greyson

“Now hear me. Before the end, you will pluck snowdrops at midwinter, die by your own choosing, and weep for a nightingale.”

— Katherine Arden

“Before the end, you will pluck snowdrops at midwinter, die by your own choosing, and weep for a nightingale.”

— Katherine Arden

The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

— Horace

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

— John Dryden

“But at the end of February, out of a cold black north a dozen meandering snowflakes fell. They drifted about the air like thrums…

— Nan Shepherd

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

— Pat Conroy

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a…

— Jane Smiley

It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the fence still…

— Eve Langley

Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our…

— Gail Mazur

So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe