Winnipeg Poem
Survivors in the frozen north
 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 Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides Architects are practical poets. - Unknown Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter Always be a poet, even in prose. - Charles Baudelaire Love is the poetry of the senses. - Honore de Balzac Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery Cursing the weather is never good farming. - English Proverb You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. - Oscar Wilde At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. - Laini Taylor Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. - Mark Twain An end is in sight to the severe weather shortage. - Ian Macaskill 'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know. - Andre Gide It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T Washington Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world. - Wallace Stevens 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 Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. - Adrian Mitchell I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year. - Rachelle Lefevre The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems. - Chet Raymo Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. - Christopher P. Rubero Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. - Unknown The past is frozen and no longer flows, and the present is all lit up with eternal rays. - C S Lewis Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. - Heinrich Heine Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike Be careful not to complain about anything, even the weather, since I am the Author of your circumstances. - Sarah Young Don't poets know it better than others? God can't always be everywhere: and, so, invented mothers. - Edwin Arnold If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. - Johnny Carson Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. - William Butler Yeats The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. - C S Lewis When my wife says she'll be ready in 5 minutes, I know I have just enough time to fly to space and write a poem on the moon before we go. - Mike Vanatta NBC News just called it "The Great Freeze" - coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the global warming hoax? - Donald Trump see also Canada, Stress, Survivor & Weather Sections Winter in Wyoming
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