„But pleasures are like poppies spread—
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river—
A moment white—then melts forever.“

Robert Burns7

1759 - 1796

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„And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!“

— George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824
The Destruction of Sennacherib, st. 6.

„We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.“

— Louise Erdrich, Tracks

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„Down she bent
Her head upon an arm so white that tears
Seem’d but the natural melting of its snow,
Touch’d by the flush’d cheek's crimson.“

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
Love’s Last Lesson

„Blooms in its day and may not last forever.“

— Hermann Hesse German writer 1877 - 1962

„The human heart is a garden, wherein grow weeds of memory and blooms of hope, and the snow falls at last and covers all.“

— Frank Crane American Presbyterian minister 1861 - 1928

„Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art gone, and forever!“

— Walter Scott Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771 - 1832
Canto III, stanza 16 (Coronach, stanza 3).

„Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.“

— John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more! O weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core. "Faery Songs", I (1818)

„The snow is melting into music.“

— John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914
15 January 1873, page 107

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„Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.“

— Mary Oliver American writer 1935

„If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?“

— Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People

„Remember the words of the Bible in Amos 5:24, 'Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-falling stream'.“

— Frank Bainimarama Prime Minister of Fiji 1954

„And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise
Her beautiful bold brow,
When rites and forms before his burning eyes
Melted like snow.“

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892
Context: p>Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world Like one great garden show'd, And thro' the wreaths of floating dark up-curl'd, Rare sunrise flow'dAnd Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise Her beautiful bold brow, When rites and forms before his burning eyes Melted like snow.</p

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„Yet love enters my blood like an I. V.,
dripping in its little white moments.“

— Anne Sexton poet from the United States 1928 - 1974

„Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.“

— Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

„And just like that, something in the cosmos shifts. A butterfly flaps its wings in South America. Snow falls in Chicago. You give an idiot a stupid magic screw and it turns out to be a necessary part after all.“

— Libba Bray American teen writer 1964
Context: Marisol does a silly dance with Balder and the screw, one in each hand, so that nobody gets the idea that she takes tins — or anything else, for that matter — seriously. And just like that, something in the cosmos shifts. A butterfly flaps its wings in South America. Snow falls in Chicago. You give an idiot a stupid magic screw and it turns out to be a necessary part after all. p. 389

„You should feel what it is like to pleasure a falcon. You lock talons with her in the sky and do it while you both are falling like meteors. You would like it; they never complain if you come too fast.“

— Christopher Moore American writer of comic fantasy 1957

„But pleasures are like poppies spread—You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;Or like the snow falls in the river—A moment white—then melts forever.“

Robert Burns7

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„But pleasures are like poppies spread—
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river—
A moment white—then melts forever.“