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:

    “Out alone in the winter rain,
    Intent on giving and taking pain.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

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