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“But winter was necessary. Why else would the world have it? The trees seemed to welcome the season, from the way they changed colors before they dropped their leaves and went to sleep. Winter was a...”
“Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow.”
“sleeping beauty/trips me with a frown”
“I was washing outside in the darkness,the sky burning with rough stars,and the starlight, salt on an axe-blade.The cold overflows the barrel.The gate's locked,the land's grim as its conscience.I do...”
“As long as there exist summer, we shall love the winter! The day summer disappears from Earth, we shall hate the winter!”
“Beautiful winter means beautiful spring! When you look at a great winter scenery, see the flowers, see the bees, see the butterflies, they are all there!”
“It was one of those years when there was no summer. There was no winter either. It was just November all year that year.”
“But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without wind, in a soft universal diffusion more confusing than the g...”
“In winter night Massachusetts Street is dismal, the ground's frozen cold, the ruts and pock holes have ice, thin snow slides over the jagged black cracks. The river is frozen to stolidity, waits; h...”
“Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!”
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.”
“You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.”
“I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.”
“I hate winter. I’ve lived in Syracuse my whole life and I hate winter. It starts too early and ends too late. No one likes it.”
“No. She will never be queen.” She swayed toward him, and he felt like he was being encircled by a python, smothered and choked.”
