“It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep”
James Frey book A Million Little Pieces
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
behind you, like the winter that has just gone by.
For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
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Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek <br class="br">(original Dutch, citaat van Schelfhout, uit zijn brief:) ..en daar wij nu in het Zomer leeven zijn heb ik geen truk [truc] van mij de Winter zoo danig voor den geest te halen dat ik in staat zoude zijn er een te kunnen schilderen.. ..en gij zou den gedult moeten nemen tot aanstaande winter. <br class="br">Quote of Schelfhout in a letter to his client nl:Johannes Immerzeel, June 1832; as cited in 'Andreas Schelfhout Onsterfelijk schoon', Simonis & Buunk 2005 https://www.simonis-buunk.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/catalogus_schelfhout.pdf, p. 17
“Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener
"Bee-Master", p. 40
The Land (1926)
“Oh the long and dreary Winter!
Oh the cold and cruel Winter!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book The Song of Hiawatha
Pt. XX.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
W.B. Yeats book Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 3 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
“O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley book Ode to the West Wind
St. V
Source: Ode to the West Wind (1819)
Context: 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?
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
Virginia Woolf book Jacob's Room
Source: Jacob's Room
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Address at the Opening of the Winter Relief Campaign http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-address-at-the-opening-of-the-winter-relief-campaign-september-1942 (September 30, 1942) <br class="br">1940s