Quotations About / On: SNOW

  • 41.
    As a flower, as a fire, as a hushed footfall
    In a long forgotten snow.
    (Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), U.S. poet. Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten (l. 7-8). . . Poetry Anthology, The, 1912-1977. Daryl Hine and Joseph Parisi, eds. (1978) Houghton Mifflin Company.)
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  • 42.
    Meanwhile Snow White held court,
    rolling her china-blue doll eyes open and shut
    and sometimes referring to her mirror
    as women do.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.")
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  • 43.
    the listener, who listens in the snow,
    And, nothing himself, beholds
    Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
    (Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. The Snow Man (l. 13-15). . . Collected Poems [Stevie Smith]. James MacGibbon, ed. (1976) New Directions.)
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  • 44.
    Rigidly they
    Persisted, linked, through lengths and breadths
    Of time. Snow fell, undated.
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "A Arundel Tombn.")
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  • 45.
    The snow, which doth the top of Pindus strew,
    Did never whiter shew,
    Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be
    For love of Leda, whiter did appear:
    (Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Prothalamion (l. 40-43). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)
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  • 46.
    And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
    Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
    (George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. The Destruction of Sennacherib (l. 23-24). . . The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.)
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  • 47.
    It seems
    you that is lifted
    limp and ardent
    off the dark snow
    and shoved in, and driven away.
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Note to Olga (1966).")
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  • 48.
    Keep it off!
    By night, snow swerves
    (O loose moth world) ...
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Livings.")
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  • 49.
    Suddenly clouds of snow
    Begin assaulting the air,
    As falling, as tangled
    As a girl's thick hair.
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The North Ship.")
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  • 50.
    Winter kept us warm, covering
    Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
    A little life with dried tubers.
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. The Waste Land, "The Burial of the Dead.")
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