“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate…
Snow… unceasing snow”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate…
Snow… unceasing snow”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
“As snow-jobs go, this beats the Himalayas.”
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
"The BBC was doing its job - bring back Gilligan", Daily Telegraph, 29 January 2004, p. 21.
Reaction to the Hutton Report.
2000s, 2004
“Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers”
Avner Strauss (1954) Israeli musician
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).
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Mid-Winter http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blrossettichristmas.htm, st. 1 (1872). <br class="br">Source: The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Rufus Wainwright (1973) American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
Tiergarten
Song lyrics, Release the Stars (2007)