Winter solstice quotes and poems to get you through the shortest day of the year

Today is the shortest day of the year, also known as the winter solstice.

The solstice marks the start of winter in astronomical terms, where the start of seasons is determined by the tilt of the earth’s axis just head of Christmas.

This also coincides with the day on which we will have the least amount of daylight – marking the point when the days will gradually start to get a little longer before the clocks go forward in the spring.

Let’s celebrate the solstice with some wintery quotes and poems…

Quotes to celebrate the winter solstice

‘Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.’ Khalil Gibran

‘Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for a home.’ Edith Sitwell

‘Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.’ Pietro Aretino

‘While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.’ Tom Allen

‘In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.’ William Blake

‘Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.’ Anamika Mishra

‘Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake’. Sara Raasch

‘Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.’ Andy Goldsworthy

Quotes to get you through winter

Not everyone is a winter person.

If you’d rather have some quotes and poems that will help you think of days to come, check these out…

‘My old grandmother always used to say, ‘Summer friends will melt away like like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.’ George R R Martin

‘What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?’ John Steinbeck

‘People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.’ Anton Chekhov

‘One kind word can warm three winter months.’ Japanese Proverb

‘No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.’ Hal Borland

‘When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed that with the sun’s love, in the spring becomes the rose’ Bette Midler, The Rose

‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind?’ Percy Bysshe Shelley

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