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- 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 (1819 - 1875), Saint's Tragedy (act III, sc. 1)
- 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 (1830 - 1894), A Christmas Carol
- If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
- Wisdom comes with winters.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
- Henry Beston, Northern Farm
- Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns. - Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
- Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- If you stand still outside you can hear it... Winter's footsteps, the sound of falling leaves
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc.3
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