Winter and Spring

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or spring:

    “These are the small townsmen of death,
    A man and a woman, like two leaves
    That keep clinging to a tree,
    Before winter freezes and grows black....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
    What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
    What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
    What are deep? The ocean and truth.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)