Victoria Matthews (Author)

The child is the father of the man . . .” - William Wordsworth  https://kidadl.com/fun-facts/william-wordsworth-facts-all-about-this-english-poet-megastar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXFSvtHQtSU

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” ― William Shakespeare (Painting by Alfred Stevens ) https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow.” - Robert Walser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walser_(writer)

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.” ― Aristotle https://factslegend.org/30-interesting-aristotle-facts-know/

We turn not older with years but newer every day.” - Emily Dickinson    https://kidadl.com/articles/incredible-emily-dickinson-facts?fbclid=IwAR2UDh1R8k5ykH49j0f0l1nAYEiZ1lBEaXgWZJ8EMLO0wryjadQQMWfIo0g (“The Foot Bridge Painting” by artist, Arie Reinhardt Taylor)

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Self-portrait by artist, Frida Kahlo, 1941) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago." - Christina Rossetti  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn’t there.” - Carl Sagan . . . (OPTICAL ILLUSION: First, it looks like a man walking in forest; it’s really a dog running towards you.} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.” ― Salvador Dalí https://arthive.com/salvadordali/works/316415~Sleep https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/sleep/article-689733 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD Painting by Salvador Dali, “Sleep” 1937

Time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers.” - Albert Einstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” - Virginia Woolf  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” ― Dylan Thomas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas

“. . .  how much better it would be if people could go to sleep like the fields; could be blanketed down under the snow, to wake with their hurts healed and their defeats forgotten.” ― Willa Cather https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” ―  Fyodor Dostoyevsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky

Silence and solitude, the soul’s best friends.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  (Danish painter, Vilhelm Hammershoi, 1864-19160) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow

Snow, delicate snow, that falls with such lightness on the head, on the feelings, come and cover over the sadness that lies always in my reason.” - Miguel de Unamuno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno

Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release, Th’ indifferent judge between the high and low.” - Astrophel and Stella (Certain Sonnets, Sonnet XXXIIX) (Artist, William Dobell, “Young Man Sleeping” (1935).) https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/astrophil-and-stella/