Melting Snow Quotes

When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not the sweet violet - you know, that early dark violet that smells of melting snow and spring grass.
- Leo Tolstoy

before the gate --
my walking stick's made a river
of melting snow
- Kobayashi Issa

The sky was white but deteriorating fast. As always, it was becoming an enormous drop sheet. Blood was bleeding through, and in patches, the clouds were dirty, like footprints in melting snow.
Footprints? you ask.
Well, I wonder whose those could be.
- Markus Zusak

Be like melting snow -- wash yourself of yourself.
- Rumi