John Dyer Poet “During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.” Winter Drawing Weather ♥ 3
Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet “Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.” Water One Day Winter ♥ 3
MS May Sarton Poet “There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.” Alive Winter ♥ 3
MS May Sarton Poet “Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.” Pain Winter ♥ 3
John Green Author, YouTuber “We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.” Kissing Coffee Winter ♥ 3
John Green Author, YouTuber “The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.” Fall Winter Sarcastic ♥ 3
John Green Author, YouTuber “I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.” School Time Winter ♥ 3
Homer Poet “Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.” Spring Blow Winter ♥ 3
Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist “I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.” Spring Summer Winter ♥ 3
MF Melville Fuller Author “I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.” Children Mother Winter ♥ 3
