“Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.”
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Possession (1990)
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English fiction writer and critic 1936Related quotes
“Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall.”
Winter Holiday (Chapter 5), 1933
“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”
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"Christmas legend" [Weinachtslegende] (1923), Berliner Börsen-Courier (25 December 1924); trans. in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 99
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
“Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers”
Context: Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers. I Answer as if Someone Really Meant to Ask, Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).
Mid-Winter http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blrossettichristmas.htm, st. 1 (1872).
Source: The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
“When the snow fall
and the white winds blow,
the lone wolf dies
but the pack survives.”