Winter solstice quotes and poems to get you through the shortest day of the year
Winter solstice quotes and poems to get you through the shortest day of the year
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Today is the shortest day of the year, also known as the winter solstice. The solstice marks the start of winter in astronomical terms, where the start of seasons is determined by the tilt of the earth’s axis just head of Christmas. This also coincides with the day on which we will have the least amount of daylight – marking the point when the days will gradually start to get a little longer before the clocks go forward in the spring.
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Let’s celebrate the solstice with some wintery quotes and poems…. ‘Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.’ Khalil Gibran. ‘Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for a home.’ Edith Sitwell.
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‘Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.’ Pietro Aretino. ‘While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.’ Tom Allen. ‘In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.’ William Blake. ‘Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.’ Anamika Mishra.
‘Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake’. Sara Raasch. ‘Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.’ Andy Goldsworthy. Not everyone is a winter person. If you’d rather have some quotes and poems that will help you think of days to come, check these out….
