Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

- Yoko Ono

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

- Frank Bolles

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

- William Blake

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

- Sinclair Lewis

Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us, even in the leafless winter, ... I am thinking now of grief and getting past it. I feel my boots trying to leave the ground, I feel my heart pumping hard. I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings. 

Starlings in Winter

- Mary Oliver

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do -- or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

- Stanley Crawford

February Twilight

I stood beside a hill
Smooth with new-laid snow,
A single star looked out
From the cold evening glow.

There was no other creature
That saw what I could see --
I stood and watched the evening star
As long as it watched me.

- Sara Teasdale

Winter is the time of love and of taking the light within.

- Terry Lynn Taylor

Winter is icumen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.

- Ezra Pound

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

- Woodrow Wilson

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

- Bill Watterson

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

- Andrew Wyeth

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

- Anton Chekhov

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

- Helen Hayes

When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.

- Celia Thaxter



In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus



We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.

The Conservative

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet