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# Weekend Words: Winter
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-winter/
- Published: 2013-01-27T15:00:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:35:47.000Z
- Description: Everyone talks about the weather, and Weekend Words is no exception. With New York undergoing a long frigid blast this week, let's raise a cold one to winter.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![Giuseppe Arcimboldo, "Winter" (1563). Oil on panel, 67 x 51 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. (click to enlarge) (Image via Web Gallery of Art)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/01/arcimboldo-winter-320.jpg)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, “Winter” (1563). Oil on panel, 67 x 51 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. (click to enlarge) (Image via Web Gallery of Art)

Everyone talks about the weather, and Weekend Words is no exception. With New York undergoing a long frigid blast this week, let’s raise a cold one to winter.

> “There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you  
> need the money; the second that you have something to say that you  
> think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to  
> do with the long winter evenings.”  
>  
> **—Quentin Crisp**

> “The winter is made and you have to bear it”  
>  
> **—Wallace Stevens, from “The Dwarf” (1942)**

> “Winter is icumen in,  
> Lhude sing Goddamm,  
> Raineth drop and staineth slop,  
> And how the wind doth ramm!  
> . Sing: Goddamm.  
> Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,  
> An ague hath my ham.  
> Freezeth river, turneth liver,  
> . Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.  
> Goddamm, Goddamm, ’tis why I am, Goddamm,  
> . So ‘gainst the winter’s balm.  
> Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm,  
> Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.”  
>  
> **—Ezra Pound, “Ancient Music” (1912)**