Winter Quotes

"The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

“For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep seeming and savour all the winter long.”

“When the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves.”

Confucius

“Or if the secret ministry of frost shall hang them up in silent icicles, quietly shining to the quiet Moon.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons.”

Emily Dickinson

“He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.”

The Bible (Psalm 147:16)

“St. Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was!”

John Keats

“When icicles hang by the wall, and Dick the shepherd blows his nail.”

“Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.”

“I leant upon a coppice gate when Frost was spectre-grey.”

Thomas Hardy

“Out of the bosom of the Air, out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow