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“It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.”

Years Passion Sun Sea Rain Winter Blow Snow Boat Autumn Flash Crew Needles Gale Autumn Leaves Piers

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.”

Giving Made Poor Hell Cold Taste Summer Fortune Winter Tenants

Book:The Early Simple Stories

Source: The Early Simple Stories

“The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.”

People Kind Air Sweet Rivers Winter Smell Ice Noses Dry Mud New Orleans Tropical Molasses Dry Ice

Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.”

Thinking Knows Looks Next Destiny Tree Bears Spring Aspect Green Fruit Winter Rough Our Destiny Twigs Fruit Trees

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness—to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.”

Men Years Mind Looks Soul Dream Heaven Easy Clear Four Quiet Summer Spring Fairs Seasons Wings Winter Mortals Fancy Autumn Honey Pale Idleness Mist Threshold Brooks Four Seasons

Book:The poetical works of John Keats

Source: The poetical works of John Keats

“Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.”

Joy Night Pleasure Summer Wine Winter Delight Cups Toys Tedious Chimneys

Book:The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion

Source: The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion

“Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.”

Dream Seasons Winter Hardest Flames Opposition Tire Creeps February

Book:The Hellbound Heart

Source: The Hellbound Heart

“...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.”

Flower Winter Chiefs Leafs Exile

Book:Robert F. Murray: His Poems

Source: Robert F. Murray: His Poems

“Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.”

Knows Way House White Rivers Horse Winter Woods Snow Grandfather November Poems Sleighs

Author:Lydia M. Child

“People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.”

People Reason Hands Might Lying Bears Winter Soldier Stations Scholar Livelihood Sustenance Paws

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.”

Names Bird Winter Delivery Owl Insulation

Author:Hal Borland

“We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.”

Faces Song Air Wind Flower Spring Winter Snow Beloved Streams Vanishing Treading Spring Flowers Winter Snow

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year.”

Trying Years Ends Sorrow Seasons Winter Staring Endurance Interiors Foliage Evergreens

Book:Prose and poetry

Source: Prose and poetry

“In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.”

Seems Sleep Spring Winter Preparing

Author:Rumi

“In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.”

Ends Civilization Essence Green Winter Hardest Renaissance Italian Renaissance

Author:John Fowles

“I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.”

Writing Years Lasts Fall Week Football Serious Couple Seven Winter Seven Days

Author:Gregg Easterbrook

“Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.”

Different Purpose Fall Energy Existence Tree Summer Spring Areas Winter Streams Capture Sunlight Leafs Transfers Usefulness Fall And Winter

Author:Guy Finley

“Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!”

Used Lines Depression Mirrors Winter Cheer Philip Rebecca Looking In The Mirror

Author:Alan Bennett

“If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.”

Ifs Would Be Able Plans Promise Winter Unemployed

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.”

Humans Earth Joy Perfect Sky Figures Exercise Spring Blue Green Winter Noble Flesh Grass Serenity Severe Grey Reckless Covering Acquisition Abstinence Poise Exuberance

Book:SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

“Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.”

People Knows Giving Different Whole Wisdom Able Growth Creativity Economy Wise Spring Seasons Winter Sickness Life And Death Decay Contradictory Impotence Wise People Seasons Of Life

Author:Sam Keen

“I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.”

Giving Two Science Three Courses Ability Education Students Thirds Prepared Winter Profession Mathematical Preparation Lectures

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Able Science Courses Education Couple Cost First Time Winter Satisfaction Practicals My Time Occupation Mediocre Lectures Reconcile Expenditures

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.”

Ifs Firsts May Drink Taste Wine Fruit Winter Careful Iron Be Careful Chill Acid October December Vintage Draught Winter Days

Book:John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist

Source: John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist

“The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.”

Ifs Heart Known Cold Winter Get Real Winter Cold Funny Winter Cute Winter

Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz

“If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.”

Ifs Friendship Spring Winter Clue Robins

Author:Bob Dylan

“I've never gotten used to winter and never will.”

Used Winter

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.”

Want Firsts Happens Achieve Winter Factors Pushing Crossings Rivalry Arctic Norwegians

Author:Ranulph Fiennes

“Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.”

Way Turns Process Growing Up Growing Happened Summer Spring Climate Winter Countryside Freezing Chilly English Countryside

Book:Hons and Rebels

Source: Hons and Rebels

“My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.”

Children Long Eye Father Memories Behinds Cases Shadow Winter Clouds Woods Passing Passings My Children Friendly Pairs Brushes Lurking Unfriendly Memory Of My Father

Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.”

Games Fans Winter Phones Excited Classic Weekend Phone Calls Inviting Flyers Alumni

Author:Eric Lindros

“I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.”

House Summer Winter Find Me Countryside Connecticut

Author:Candace Bushnell

“I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.”

Remember Three Boys Five Six Winter Miles Fifty Neighborhood County Miles Away Tracking Bobcats

Author:Terry Brooks

“I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.”

Feels Looks Matter Care Dies Winter Legs Formal Who Cares Shorts Tombstone Hypothermia

Author:Eliza Coupe

“I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.”

Long Ends Enjoy Months Summer Winter Snow Evening Hiking Skiing Norwegians

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.”

Littles Stories Kids Order House Five Mom Cold Dad Horse Raised Winter My Dad My Mom Woods Chickens Cows Pigs Beef Cattle Acres Critters

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.”

Years Littles Stuff Parent Voice Television Winter Tape Begging Recorders

Author:Dana Carvey

“I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.”

Years Reason Able Past Used Water Havens Winter Speed Lakes Thank God Hitting Jet Skis

Author:Laz Alonso

“In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.”

Hands Would Be Needed Program Management Winter University Entertainment Hotel Sleight Of Hand

Author:Ricky Jay

“As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.”

Ifs Country Home Millions Greater Cold Spring Impact Winter Weather Settling Persist Temperature American Family Heating Winter Weather

Author:Russ Carnahan

“Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.”

Has Beens War Courses Lost Changed Winter Russia Outcomes

Author:Adolf Galland

“I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.”

Children Stills Feelings Strong My Own Behinds Cutting Seeing Instinct Winter Track Newspapers Snow Wheels Pushing Winter Snow Fresh Snow Prams Maternal Instinct

Author:Agnetha Faltskog

“Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.”

Care House Flower Spring Rewards Winter Boxes Smell Suspects Scent Delicious

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.”

Ifs Knows Looks Long Body Winter Your Body Factors Vanity

Author:Stone Gossard

“When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.”

Littles House Air Car Wall Grew Ten Summer Grew Up Winter Inches Conditioning Air Conditioning Old Car Thickness

Author:Merle Haggard

“Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!”

Economy Sun Summer Winter Productive Digital Chocolate Developers Finland

Author:Trip Hawkins

“One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.”

Giving Animal Months Winter Locals Shelter Blanket Donation Best Gift Winter Months Animal Shelter

Author:Carrie Ann Inaba

“The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.”

Littles Would Be Kids Together Jobs Night Perfect Harder Winter Family Together

Author:Charles Kelley

“You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.”

Long Seems Song Kissing Romantic Lonely Winter Lovely Evening Springtime Hush Breathless

Author:Frank Sinatra

“We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.”

Looks Two Ends Country Play Hands Lasts Break Week Six Seasons England Winter Luxury Spain January

Author:Franz Beckenbauer

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