Icicles Quotes

• Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

  Henry Williamson

  Spring, Water, Spring Water

  Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old,
  their beards of icicles and snow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Winter, Snow, Tree

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Outre-mer”, p.121

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• The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

  Alan Cohen

  Fire, Purpose, Obstacles

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• How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

  Alice Sebold

  Games, Perfect, Heaven

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• Where, twisted round the barren oak,
  The summer vine in beauty clung,
  And summer winds the stillness broke,
  The crystal icicle is hung.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

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• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  Samuel Lover

  Winter, Biting, Necks

  Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.356

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• You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.

  Meat Loaf

  Relationship, Long, Tears

  Song: Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

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• She watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting.

  Gregory Maguire

  Fighting, Old Things, Water

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.310, Hachette UK

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• I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy. The sun is up and the sky is blue empty blue light blue clear blue. I would drink the sky if I could drink it, drink it and celebrate it and let it fill me and become me. I am getting better. Empty and clear and light and blue. I am getting better.

  James Frey

  Lakes, Light, Blue

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.272, Anchor

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• and the stars were icicles of mockery

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Mockery

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.48, Penguin

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• I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

  Mary E. Pearson

  White, Snow, Sculpture

  Mary E. Pearson (2012). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5”, p.17, Macmillan

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• There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
  And sometimes there'll be sorrow

  Joni Mitchell

  Clothes, Sorrow, Sometimes

  Song: Little Green, Album: Blue

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• Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161)

  David Wroblewski

  Light, Order, Optimism

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• What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

  Dogen

  Reality, Fire, Emptiness

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• In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

  Edith Wharton

  Stars, Fire, Sky

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.18, First Avenue Editions

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• I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flames, Gold, Silver

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.742, Wordsworth Editions

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• You think we stand a chance? (Delphine) Like an icicle on the equator. (Phobos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Chance, Equator

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• Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

  Fannie Hurst

  Hands, Nervous, Dripping

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The snow has left the cottage top;
  The thatch moss grows in brighter green;
  And eaves in quick succession drop,
  Where grinning icicles have been,
  Pit-patting with a pleasant noise
  In tubs set by the cottage door;
  While duck and geese, with happy joys,
  Plunge in the yard pond brimming over.
  The sun peeps through the window pane:
  Which children mark with laughing eye,
  And in the wet street steal again
  To tell each other spring is night.

  John Clare

  Children, Spring, Eye

  John Clare (1827). “The Shepherd's Calendar: With Village Stories and Other Poems”, p.20

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• the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

  Mary Cantwell

  Music, Hymns, Listening

  Mary Cantwell (1992). “Manhattan Memoir”, Penguin Group USA

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• My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Father, Drink, Sat

  Bob Monkhouse (2012). “Crying With Laughter: My Life Story”, p.47, Random House

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• People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles have formed in summer. Potted trees revive and suddenly look fresh when a florist sprinkles water on them, while papier-mâché turtles hanging out for sale move in the wind and take on souls.

  Haruo Shirane

  Summer, Moving, Turtles

  Haruo Shirane (2013). “Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900”, p.210, Columbia University Press

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• In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

  Albert Camus

  Stars, Night, Horizon

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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• The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Rome, Snow

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.229

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