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“Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'l...”
“I kill the living to make way for the dead.But we had hot chocolate, she and I. We tried to make our friendship last as long as we could.Then I was forced to let her go. I held her when she returne...”
“Autumn to winter winter into spring. Spring into summer summer into fall - So rolls the changing year and so we change -Motion so swift we know not that we move.”
“Spring is a virgin Summer a mother Autumn a widow and Winter a stepmother.”
“April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.”
“Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
“Honest Winter snow-clad and with the frosted beard I can welcome not uncordially But that long deferment of the calendar's promise that weeping gloom of March and April that bitter blast outr...”
“No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.”
“No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and we know it.”
“Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”
“Every April God rewrites the Book of Genesis.”
“The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.”
“Summer is the mother of the poor.”
“Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.”
“Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
“June's too soon July's too late - for summer.”
“April Comes like an idiot babbling and strewing flowers.”
“Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.”
“Autumn is the bite of a harvest apple.”
“May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.”
