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'So Much Like Stars': 20 Dreamy Quotes About Snow

In many parts of the world, winter brings the anticipation of snow — and few experiences are more joyous and memorable than that first thrilling snowfall of the season. A fluffy white layer of snow has the ability to slow time and mute the frenetic sounds of everyday life. Whether you love it or dread it, there’s little denying that there’s something magical about snow.

A snowy landscape is nature’s way of encouraging us to slow down and take in the world. Whether enjoyed by a cozy fire or while knee-deep with snowballs flying, there’s nothing quite like a snow day to bring out the little kid in us, no matter what our age. The snowy days of winter can transform us; freshly fallen powder outside our front door is like a clean slate on which to inscribe our hopes and goals. Who will we be and what will we do, come spring?

These quotes capture all the magic and wonder of snow and remind us that, if we’re lucky, the next snow day could be just around the corner.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Markus Zusak

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There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special, even though you know you’re not.
Carol Rifka Brunt

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The way a crow / Shook down on me / The dust of snow / From a hemlock tree / Has given my heart / A change of mood / And saved some part / Of a day I had rued.
Robert Frost

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It takes a snowflake two hours to fall from cloud to earth. Can’t you just see its slow, peaceful descent?
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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But we are not living in eternity. We have only the present moment, sparkling like a star in our hands — and melting like a snowflake. We’d better get started.
Marie Beynon Ray

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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

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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Andy Goldsworthy

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When it’s really cold, the snow makes a lovely noise underfoot, and it’s like the air is full of stars.
Katherine May

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The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?
J.B. Priestley

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With luck, it might even snow for us.
Haruki Murakami

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It was the kind of snow that brought children running out their doors, made them turn their faces skyward, and spin in circles with their arms outstretched.
Eowyn Ivey

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Oh the weather outside is frightful, / But the fire is so delightful / And since we’ve no place to go / Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Sammy Cahn

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I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
Lewis Carroll

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Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder — no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.
Candace Bushnell

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I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that’s how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little — silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.
Susan Orlean

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In the end, life is a series of snowflakes, isn’t it? Each moment is unique and completely separate from the next, with the power to change everything and nothing all at the same time. If you’re lucky, over time those billions of moments add up to a life.
Emily Littlejohn

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Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
George R.R. Martin

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I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.
Sylvia Plath

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One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.
Ezra Jack Keats

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She has made me in love with a cold climate, and frost and snow, with a northern moonlight.
Robert Southey

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Kristina Wright
Kristina is a coffee-fueled writer living happily ever after with her family in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia.
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