“A heavy blanket of snow fell last night obscuring the ground and much of the trash that has collected during the winter. If only we could cover our past misdeeds in the same way.”

— Virgil John Tangborn

January 15, 1941

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Virgil John Tangborn 13

1920–1944

Ezra Jack Keats book The Snowy Day

Source: The Snowy Day

“The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Source: Palace of Stone

“Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow”

T.S. Eliot book The Waste Land

Source: The Waste Land

“During the last six years we have discarded and destroyed much that stood in the way of a renewal and transformation of our society.”

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Nobel Address (1991)
Context: During the last six years we have discarded and destroyed much that stood in the way of a renewal and transformation of our society. But when society was given freedom it could not recognize itself, for it had lived too long, as it were, "beyond the looking glass". Contradictions and vices rose to the surface, and even blood has been shed, although we have been able to avoid a bloodbath. The logic of reform has clashed with the logic of rejection, and with the logic of impatience which breeds intolerance.