12 Pretty Quotes About Snow

12 Pretty Quotes About Snow

Let it snow!

Sade Andria ZabalaDecember 19, 2016

I gaze out the window at thousands of snowflakes fluttering to the ground.

— Calia Read, Unhinge: A Novel

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The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different … The very stealth, the eerie quietness, of the thing makes it more magical.

— J.B. Priestley, Essays of Five Decades

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The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow?

— Lara Biyuts, via Amazon

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Outside, snow had fallen thigh-deep in the night. Something was deeply soothing about so much untouched white.

— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel

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…the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.

— Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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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, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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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, Snowy Night

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And the night smells like snow.
Walking home for a moment
you almost believe you could start again.
And an intense love rushes to your heart,
and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.

— Franz Wright, Night Walk

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A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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I wonder if rain is scared
of falling
if it has trouble
letting go

if snow flakes get sick
of being perfect all the time
each one
trying to be one-of-a-kind.

— Naima Penniman, Climbing Poetree

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[In Celan’s poetry] the offer of snow seems like an offer of relief – ‘the stillness is welcome,’ Gadamer says. In the end, the poem is [always] about the readiness for death.

— Gerald L. Bruns, On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

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Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

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