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This is how winter is celebrated in literature

TNN | Last updated on - Nov 26, 2018, 15:37 IST
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This is how winter is celebrated in literature

A season may just be a season for most of us, but for a writer it is an opportunity for creativity. It can abet or quell their creative spirit. Winter holds a special place in literature, with its icy fangs and silver snow which has fired up the imagination of poets and writers through generations. It has been beautifully dealt with in literature and as the season approaches, here are a few quotes that have surpassed the ravages of time due to their eloquence and mellifluousness.
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Kenneth Grahame

“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
― Kenneth Grahame
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.”
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Robert Byrne

“Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.”
― Robert Byrne
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Victor Hugo

“Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”
― Victor Hugo
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Philip Pullman

“We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.”
― Philip Pullman
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Haruki Murakami

“There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself.”
― Haruki Murakami
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Neil Gaiman

Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.”
― Neil Gaiman
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Charles Baudelaire

The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass;
And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,
I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,
And build me stately palaces by candlelight.”
― Charles Baudelaire
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J.K. Rowling

“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
― J.K. Rowling
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Virginia Woolf

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
― Virginia Woolf
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George R.R. Martin

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
― George R.R. Martin
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Lewis Carroll

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll

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