First Snow Quotes

• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

  J. B. Priestley

  Fall, Snow, Childhood

  "Garden Witchery : Magick from the Ground Up". Book by by Ellen Dugan, p. 206, 2003.

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• I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving;
  then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.

  Anne Sexton

  Believe, Moving, Air

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

  Candace Bushnell

  Believe, Winter, Snow

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• When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Snow, Thrill, Growing

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• 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

  Good Night, Summer, Nature

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.4, PDFreeBooks.org

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• In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Death, Fighting, Kissing

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2008). “Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems”, p.73, Penguin UK

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• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

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• The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.

  Peggy Noonan

  Yesterday, Snow, Sculpture

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

  Edith Sitwell

  Home, Winter, Weather

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.176, A&C Black

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• I am younger each year at the first snow.

  Anne Sexton

  Years, Snow, Firsts

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

  Sara Coleridge

  Feet, Snow, January

  Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7

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• The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

  James Russell Lowell

  Night, White, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.631, Delphi Classics

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• Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Country, Winter, Snow

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• A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Winter, Wind

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• I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.

  Rachel Cohn

  Children, Couple, Winter

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.168, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Ruth Stout

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• Humid seal of soft affections,
  Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
  Dearest tie of young connections,
  Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

  Robert Burns

  Kissing, Ties, Snow

  Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.186

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• And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

  James Russell Lowell

  Snow, Tree, Pearls

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.379

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• In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

  Christina Rossetti

  Nature, Travel, Winter

  'Mid-Winter'

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• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

  Emily Dickinson

  Letting Go, Snow, Firsts

  'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

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• Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Inspiration, Self

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Winter, White, Snow

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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