“It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.”
Dylan Thomas
more infosource: “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” in The Collected Stories (New York: New Directions, 1986), 296.
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category: cat, Christmas, snow, winter
medium: Fiction
via: Sarah Kershaw“Just to live in New England in winter is a full-time job; you don’t have to ‘do’ anything. The idle pursuit of making-a-living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “A Report in January,” in Essays of E. B. White (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), 46.
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category: New England, winter
medium: Essay
“My garden is all covered up by snow; picked gilliflower Tuesday, now gilliflowers are asleep. The hills take off their purple frocks, and dress in long white nightgowns.”
Emily Dickinson
more infosource: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 228.
category: color, garden, nature, purple, snow, white, winter
medium: letter
notes: letter to Louise Norcross, Dickinson's first cousin, December 1860?
“For about a month now we have had solid cold—firm, business-like cold that stalked in and took charge of the countryside as a brisk housewife might take charge of someone else’s kitchen in an emergency.”
E. B. White
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