Winter Retreat

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or retreat:

“I know that winter death has never tried
The earth but it has failed:”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one’s mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)