Quotes: Edith Sitwell

"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 home." 

–– Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), British poet and critic 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2015, p. 52. 

Quotes: Andrew Wyeth

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape –– the loneliness of it, the dead feel of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." 

–– Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), American visual artist 

Quotes 129: Ali Smith

"That's what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again." 

–– Ali Smith (b. 1962), Scottish writer