“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields,
that it kisses them so gently?
And then it covers them up snug, you know,
with a white quilt; and perhaps it says,
"Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
—Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

“For among these winters there is one so
endlessly winter that only by wintering through it
will your heart survive.” —Rilke