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Joyous Solstice

“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
~ Pietro Aretino

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand, and for a talk beside the fire. It is the time for home.”
~ Edith Sitwel

“The color of springtime is in the flower; the color of winter is in the imagination.”
~ Ward Elliot Hour

“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
~ Terri Guillemets

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
~ Albert Camus

“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

“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
~ Bill Watterson

“Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow.”
~ TS Eliot

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
~ Lewis Carroll

“Winter is the time when nature takes a well-deserved nap, and we can find beauty in the stillness of the world.”
~ Unknown

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
~ E.E. Cummings

“Winter is not a season; it’s a celebration.”
~ Anamika Mishra

“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.”
~ John Burroughs

“Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.”
~ Mary Oliver

“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearth rugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.”
~ Thomas De Quincy

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