“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
Sundial of the Seasons, Lippincott, 1964, p. 49
Die Liebe wintert nicht;
Nein! nein!
Ist und bleibt Fruhlingesschein.
"Herbstlied", line 22, from Friedrich Schiller (ed.), Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1799 (1798); translation from W. B. T., Every Morning (London: William Tegg, 1874), p. 71.
Die Liebe wintert nicht; Nein! nein! Ist und bleibt Fruhlingesschein.
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
Sundial of the Seasons, Lippincott, 1964, p. 49
“Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 143
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
Life-Music, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
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?
“Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, Planet of Exile (1966), Chapter 4 (The Tall Young Men)