Beauty

"Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness,
And, being help’d, inhabits there."

--William Shakespeare in Two Gentlemen of Verona

Words

“When he spoke, what tender words he used!

So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow,

They melted as they fell.”

--John Dryden

Hold fast

“Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die,

Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly,

Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams go,

Life is a barren field,

Frozen with snow."

--Langston Hughes

Fire and snow

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

--William Shakespeare

Stars in the snow

“A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.”

--Rainer Maria Rilke

Snow Moon

It's snowing!

By candlelight

"She loved the balcony, the session

of waiting for the dawn to blush,

when, in pale sky, the stars' procession

fades from the view, and in the hush

earth's rim grows light, and a forewarning

whisper of breeze announces morning,

and slowly day begins to climb.

In winter, when for longer time

the shades of night within their keeping

hold half the world still unreleased,

and when, by misty moon, the east

is softly, indolently sleeping,

wakened at the same hour of night

"Tatyana'd rise by candlelight."

--from Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin