![]() It’s winter in Winnipeg and the gentle breezes blow at seventy-five miles an hour at thirty-five below Oh how I love Winnipeg when the snow is up to your butt you take a breath of winter air and your nostril’s freeze shut Yes the weather here is wonderful so I guess I’ll stick around I could never leave Winnipeg because I’m frozen to the ground Poets are born, not paid. - Addison Mizner I want to make a poem of my life. - Yukio Mishima Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin I like Beethoven, especially the poems. - Ringo Starr Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery You bring your own weather to the picnic. - Harlan Coben This poem will never reach its destination. - Voltaire A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. - Laini Taylor A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka 'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know. - Andre Gide If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. - Leonard Cohen It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer There is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather. - Christina Rossetti The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. - Walt Whitman A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. - Robert Frost It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. - Anthony J. D'Angelo Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. - Amelia Barr Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. - Christopher P. Rubero Poets aren't very useful, Because they aren’t consumeful or produceful. - Ogden Nash Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action. - Henry Miller I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather. - Al Roker The past is frozen and no longer flows, and the present is all lit up with eternal rays. - C S Lewis I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. - Pablo Neruda The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail - traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. - Dr. SunWolf My favourite poem is the one that starts, "Thirty days hath September" because it actually tells you something. - Groucho Marx They invented the three-day bank holiday weekend because you can't lump all the bad weather into just Saturday and Sunday. - Unknown Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day. - Suzy Kassem As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin see also Canada, Stress, Survivor & Weather Sections Winter in Wyoming |
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