January Quotes - Page 3

• Moonless winter night-
  a billow of rising fog
  hides the distant pines

  Lenard Moore

  Winter, Night, Fog

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• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Intelligent, Minorities

  Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), December 31, 2000.

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• O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,
  What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn
  Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn
  Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire
  The streams than under ice. June could not hire
  Her roses to forego the strength they learn
  In sleeping on thy breast.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Heart, Sleep, Loss

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer. Minute by minute they lengthen out. It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change. It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child, as you watch it day by day, until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise we realize that we can stay out of doors in a
  twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Children, Twilight, Weather

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• Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, June, Long

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• From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin.
  No lady alive can show such a skin.
  I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather,
  But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together.
  Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear,
  Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare.
  Though so much of Heaven appears in my make,
  The foulest impressions I easily take.
  My parent and I produce one another,
  The mother the daughter, the daughter the mother.

  James Parton

  Daughter, Mother, Fall

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• Dirty days hath September
  April June and November
  From January up to May
  The rain it raineth every day
  All the rest have thirty-one
  Without a blessed gleam of sun
  And if any of them had two-and-thirty
  They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty."
  
  
  
  "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Blessed, Rain

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• January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Memories, Men, Two

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• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

  Charles Lamb

  Marriage, New Year, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

  Mark Twain

  June, July, August

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• One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Winter, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.89, Vintage

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• The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

  Wallace Stevens

  Winter, Ice, Sky

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.319, Vintage

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• I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Wind, Wings

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• Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beautiful, Song, Time

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Inspiration, Writing

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• Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.101, Canongate Books

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• When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernating hedgehog I relish the security of being withdrawn from all that summer ferment that is long since past. Then is the time for reappraisal: to spread out, limp and receptive, and let garden thoughts rise to the surface. They emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

  Mirabel Osler

  Summer, Winter, Past

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• Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

  Olga Korbut

  Thank You, Years, Thank God

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• Even though it was January, in Los Angeles it was beautiful and sunny and the blue skies were out and it was hot everyday, so I think it was just a product of our environment. And California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else. But there's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beautiful, Dream, Beach

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.

  John Lydgate

  May, Cold

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winter, Long, Tree

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4394, Delphi Classics

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• The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn.

  Patricia Hampl

  Pride, Winter, Night

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• The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Clouds, Bird, Tree

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• Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

  Stephen King

  Heart, Winter, Fire

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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