Winter Retreat

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or retreat:

“Out alone in the winter rain,
Intent on giving and taking pain.”
—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)