T. S. Eliot Quotes, Winter Quotes, Waterfalls Quotes

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Winter Quotes , Men Quotes

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Winter Quotes , Dark Quotes

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Winter Quotes , Darkness Quotes

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Winter Quotes , Long Quotes

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Winter Quotes , Shining Quotes

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Winter Quotes , Snow Quotes

There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Winter Quotes , Long Quotes

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Winter Quotes

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year you must not die; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year you shall not die.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Lying Quotes , Winter Quotes

Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Winter Quotes , Blow Quotes

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sunshine Quotes , Winter Quotes

The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Winter Quotes , Long Quotes

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Dark Quotes , Winter Quotes

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Winter Quotes , Night Quotes

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Winter Quotes , People Quotes

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Winter Quotes , Gone Quotes

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Winter Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I know I am deathlessWe have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Summer Quotes , Winter Quotes

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Winter Quotes , Air Quotes