Rare Winter Visitor

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

    “It is rare to find one who was so much of a poet and so little of an artist.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “O Time and Change!—with hair as gray
    As was my sire’s that winter day,
    How strange it seems, with so much gone
    Of life and love, to still live on!
    Ah, brother! only I and thou
    Are left of all that circle now,—
    The dear home faces whereupon
    That fitful firelight paled and shone.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “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)