Rare Winter Visitor

Famous quotes containing the words rare, winter and/or visitor:

“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“The winter owl banked just in time to pass
And save herself from breaking window glass.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves behind
The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
—Robert Nathan (1894–1985)