If I were a bear And a big bear too, I shouldn’t much care If it froze or snew; I shouldn’t much mind If it snowed or friz – I’d be all fur-lined With a coat like his.
Snow Quotes
As pure as snow.
The first snow always startles you. It makes everything look better. In the suburbs it gives a layer of cottony brightness to trees and fences and lawns; it covers the tricycle left in the driveway, turning its little aluminum frame into an abstract sculpture that says: “See how quickly yesterday turns into today”. In farm […]
As white as snow.
One New Year’s Eve I was at a party in a farmhouse on a hill above a small Vermont village. By midnight the snow had stopped and the moon had come out. It was one degree below zero. Almost everyone at the party had gone outside to look at the new snow. All around was […]
There may be snow on the roof, but there’s fire in the belly.
Are flowers the winter’s choice? Is love’s bed always snow? She seemed to hear my silent voice, Not love’s appeals to know. I never saw so sweet a face As that I stood before; My heart has left its dwelling place, And can return no more.
After a long time I returned to my bunk and I lay down, closing my eyes; feeling the snow’s minute and crisp touch falling gently and exquisitely, falling perfectly and suddenly, through the thick soundless autumn of imagination
Christmas has been gendered as woman’s realm in its emphasis on children and family… The snowman’s location in the semi-public space of garden or field reinforces a spatial-social system marking women’s sphere as the domestic-private and the men’s as the commercial-public. (Art historian of Birmingham University, on the repressively patriarchal imagery of snowmen)
Snow is water, and ice is water, and water is water, these three are one.
