Spring, summer and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

 —Mignon McLaughlin

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

—Andrew Wyeth

Every mile is two in winter.

 —George Herbert

One kind word can warm three winter months.

 —Japanese proverb

There is a privacy about it that no other season gives you… In spring, summer, and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

 —Ruth Stout

The winter comes: the frozen rut / Is bound with silver bars; / the white drift heaps against the hut; / and night is pierced with stars.

 —Coventry Patmore

From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens — the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind’s eye.

—Katherine S. White

In a way, winter is the real spring — the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

 —Edna O’Brien

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the grey winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

 —Hal Borland

It was evening all afternoon. / It was snowing / And it was going to snow. / The blackbird sat / In the cedar limbs.

 —Wallace Stevens

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

 —Henry Mitchell

The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, / Their abundance summery wordage silenced, caught / In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront / Implacable winter’s long, cross-questioning brunt.

 —D.H. Lawrence