Winter

Winter

Winter (/ˈwɪntər/ WIN-tər) is the coldest season of the year in temperate climates, between autumn and spring. At the winter solstice, the days are shortest and the nights are longest, with days lengthening as the season progresses after the solstice.

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Famous quotes containing the word winter:

    “The winter is to a woman of fashion what, of yore, a campaign was to the soldiers of the Empire.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “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)

    “The winter does what it can for its children.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)