Cassandra Yost

“Harnessing winter's energy, I drift,
my free, wild woman's soul,
alight with day's deep desires.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Wild Soul: Contemporary Classical Winter Poetry

“being the loudest on earth’s playground
doesn’t make us any more important than
the dirt we crush beneath our feet
we are nothing except air
and fire and water and soil
we are a people
who forget what we are made of
a people who talk about the weather
as if it’s mundane and not magic
as if the oceans
are not holy water
as if the sky
is not a vision
as if the animals
are not our siblings
as if nature is not god
and rain is not god’s tears
and we are not god’s children
as if god is not the earth itself”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“Our mindsets shape our attention: by influencing what we believe winter fundamentally is--dreadful or delightful, boring or fascination--and what we expect winter to be like, our mindsets subconsciously orient us to one version of reality or another.”
― Kari Leibowitz, How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days

“These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul