Literary Winter Quotes For Embracing The Season

When is winter here? We say to each other, year after year, “it’s too soon for winter,” grinning at the thought of bearing the cold.

When winter begins is arbitrary. It may be that winter begins with the first snowfall or winter begins immediately after Thanksgiving. Winter is here when in a final whoosh of cold November wind all the red leaves are blown from the trees and the days remain grey.

As readers and writers, we go to the great books for wisdom. As I thought of winter and how writers present this season of cold perseverance, I drifted upon some indelible images of winter: the beauty of snow on bare trees or the hint of bacchanalia after closing the long curtains against the winter storms as imagined by Thomas DeQuincy, author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

Winter brings the inevitable meditations of mortality and melancholy — somewhat tempered by hopes of the spring season‚winter’s color remains blue.

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn Whom it touches.” -E.E. Cummings

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“The way a crow

Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued” -Robert Frost

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“Wisdom comes with winters.” -Oscar Wilde

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“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.” -Mignon McLaughlin

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“There’s a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons-
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes-

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us-
We can find no scar,
But internal difference,
Where the Meanings, are-

None may teach it-Any-
’Tis the Seal Despair-
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the Air-

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