Fragment Friday - The Winter Quote Edition

Flashback Friday Photo - Merlin at 12 weeks old.

Winter Quotes

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. 

                                                                                                 Ruth Stout

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe

Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!

And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth

Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

Be through my lips to unawakened earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

                                         Percy Bysshe Shelley

One kind word can warm three winter months. 

                                        Japanese Proverb

It is said that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer. 

                                       Unknown Author

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. 

                                       Virginia Woolf

BONUS ROUND

 

There's a Certain Slant of Light

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....

When it comes, the Landscape listens—

Shadows—hold their breath—

When it goes, 'tis like the Distance

On the look of Death.

                                 Emily Dickinson

Flashback Friday Photo - Max at 5 months old.