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In the town of The Pas, Manitoba
It snows on the first of Octoba
From then, for six months,
It thaws only once
And never when I am quite soba.
-Anon.
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A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
-Anon.
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Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled.
-Anon.
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The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
-Proverb
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The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
-Margaret Atwood
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Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!
-Emily Bront
Remembrance
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And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Hebrew Melodies, `The Destruction of Sennacherib'
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On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was the flow
Of Iser, rolling rapidly.
-Thomas Campbell
Hohenlinden
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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
attributed - no source found
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Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
-Confucius
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This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --
First --Chill --then Stupor --then the letting go --.
-Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 341, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
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Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.
The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
-Herodotus
Histories
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About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
-A.E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad
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Have you seen but a bright lily grow,
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall o' the snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?...
O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!
-Ben Johnson
Celebration of Charis, IV, `Her Triumph'
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When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
-Lady Bird Johnson
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There was an old man of Quebec,
Who was buried in snow to his neck.
When asked,
-Rudyard Kipling
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
-Stanislaw Lec
More Unkempt Thoughts, 1962
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THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.
Every pine and fir and hemlock
Wore ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
-James Russell Lowell
The First Snow-Fall
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-Vladimir Nabokov
The Gift
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
-J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley
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In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter,
Long ago.
-Christina Rossetti
Mid-Winter, 1862
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
-Sir Walter Scott
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
-Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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Books about Snow
