Rare Winter Visitor

Famous quotes containing the words rare, winter and/or visitor:

    “My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
    And in the heavens write your glorious name.
    Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
    Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
    A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
    She is a visitor who leaves behind
    The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
    —Robert Nathan (1894–1985)