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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Snow.")
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He disappeared in the dead of winter.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. In Memory of W. B. Yeats (l. 1). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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In winter, in my room,
I came upon a worm,
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. In winter in my room (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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Swans in the winter air
A white perfection have,
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Fish in the Unruffled Lakes (l. 3-4). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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Certain branches cut
certain leaves fallen
the grapes
cooked and put up
for winter
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "October.")
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this winter's revolt of the unbellied trees
one reason being they're all gnarled knees
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Tercets of the Triad.")
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I know that winter death has never tried
The earth but it has failed:
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Onset (l. 13-14). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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Winter tames man, woman, and beast.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Grumio, in The Taming of the Shrew, act 4, sc. 1, l. 23-4.)
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The winter is made and you have to bear it,
The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind,
For all the thoughts of summer that go with it
In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags....
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Dwarf.")
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Maxim de Winter: Tell me, is Mrs. Van Hopper a friend of yours or just a relation?
Mrs. de Winter: No, she's my employer. I'm what's known as a paid companion.
Maxim de Winter: I didn't know that companionship could be bought.
(Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955), U.S. screenwriter, and Joan Harrison (1911-1994), British screenwriter. Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier), Mrs. de Winter (Joan Fontaine), Rebecca (1940).)
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