"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow."
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"Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow."
"Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain."
"Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill."
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
"I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!"
"The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce."
"If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?"
"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."
"I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow."
"The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white."
"It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs."
"To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold."
"Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?"
"We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow"
"Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow."
"To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave."
"The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow."
"I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time."
"When it's cold and raining,you are more beautiful.And the snow brings meeven closer to your lipsThe inner secret, that which was never born,you are that freshness, and I am with you now.I can't explain the goings,or the comings. You enter suddenly,and I am nowhere again.Inside the majesty"