Rare Winter Visitor

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

    “If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Stands the Spring! heralded by its bright-clothed
    Trumpeters, of bough and bush and branch;
    Pale Winter draws away his white hands, loathed,
    And creeps, a leper, to the cave of time.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “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)