February Quotes

• Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

  Pietro Aretino

  Spring, Winter, Jugs

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

  Patience Strong

  Spring, Joy, Taste

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Every mile is two in winter

  George Herbert

  Life, Winter, Two

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.179

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• February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Heaven, Mountain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -

  Marc Parent

  Lasting Change, Dreamer, Doers

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• in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.

  Patience Strong

  Regret

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

  William Shakespeare

  Storm, Frost, Matter

  1598 Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.4, l.40-2.

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• There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Smell, One Day

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  White, Black, Shade

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• Late February days; and now, at last,
  Might you have thought that
  Winter's woe was past;
  So fair the sky was and so soft the air.

  William Morris

  Winter, Past, Air

  William Morris (1871). “The Earthly Paradise: December: The golden apples; The fostering of Aslaug. January: Bellerophon at Argos; The ring given to Venus. February: Bellerophon in Lycia; The hill of Venus. Epilogue. L'envoi”, p.368

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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Change, England, Serious

  The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could DoWithout" (1949)

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• Violets are God's apology for February.

  Barbara Johnson

  Apology, Violet

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.22, Zondervan

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• In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Relationship, Thinking Of You, Money

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

  Katherine Paterson

  People, Reason, Ends

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

  Shirley Jackson

  Summer, Winter, Air

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.781, Macmillan

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• February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winter, Dawn, Frost

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.51, Penguin

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• Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

  William Sharp

  Winter, Giving, Secret

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1910). “The silence of amor. Where the forest murmurs”

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• The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

  William C. Bryant

  Sunshine, Bud

  William Cullen Bryant, “Among The Trees”

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• January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Grief, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.500, Delphi Classics

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• Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Love, Family, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Feb 14, 2014

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• The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.

  Tom Robbins

  Valentine, Lucky, Causes

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• Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
  And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
  No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
  And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
  These are days when ancients held a rite
  Of expiation for the old year's ill,
  And prayer to purify the new year's will.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  New Year, Prayer, Lying

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
  There are Spring violets under the snow.

  Robert Henry Newell

  Spring, Winter, Snow

  Robert Henry Newell (1871). “Versatilities”, p.16

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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Spring, Winter, Long Ago

  "The Twelve Seasons". Book by Joseph Wood Krutch, p. 169, 1949.

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