Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or birds:
“One aged manone mancant keep a house,
A farm, a countryside, or if he can,
Its thus he does it of a winter night.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silkbut is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the bookon risk of a lumbago & sciatics.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)