SNOW QUOTES
quotations about snow
To a tracker, a fresh blanket of snow is like a newspaper delivered to your door.
JOHN VAN NIEL
"On the trail of skunks", Finger Lakes Times, March 27, 2017
Snow is both our best friend and worst enemy. Best friend because it shows us in a concrete form the paths other have taken to get where they are. Worst enemy because it will tell such tales of us if we chance upon it.
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
A Creature Was Stirring
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.
GLEN DUNCAN
The Last Werewolf
I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.
ANNE SEXTON
letter to W. D. Snodgrass, November 28, 1958
I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.
RACHEL COHN
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.
CANDACE BUSHNELL
Lipstick Jungle
When the snow falls with that supernatural slowness it has, it seems that the reasons for dying are more subtle than the reasons for living. But perhaps these latter are more numerous.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Cool Memories
That was me
Cold as ice
On my knees
Everynight
Snow white
Where were you
When all the doors were closing
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
"Siberia"
Getting only an inch of snow is like winning a nickel in a poker game.
GEORGE MOON
The Tennessee Mountain Man
Snow is ... the once upon a time of weather.
SEAN HURLEY
"Twenty Ways to Think About ... Snow", NHPR, December 16, 2016
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", What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems
It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city.
TRUMAN CAPOTE
"Miriam", A Tree of Night and Other Stories
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Snow-Flakes
Oh, the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
SAMMY CAHN
"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
E. E. Cummings
Viva
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
"In the Bleak Midwinter"
Blue, splinter and grow
New crystals of snow
Seen several kinds
Through seven below
PHISH
"Seven Below"
The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
DEAN KOONTZ
Brother Odd
Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable.
LOUISE PENNY
A Fatal Grace
Oh, the weather outside was whitening
'Til the dog did something frightening
He's got no other place to go
Yellow snow, yellow snow, yellow snow
BOB RIVERS
"Yellow Snow"