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compares the sound of snowfall to "the swishing
of a woman undressing" (Peter H. Lee, A History of
Korean Literature, 2004).
The suggestive sound of snow can also be:
divinely musical
Professional trainer Steve Ilg calls snowfall
"a form of divine music" (The Winter Athlete,
1999).
like a whimpering specter
What weeping ghost
inside the sound of
snow is diminished?
-- T. Byron Kelly, Project End Of Days (2005)
like sieved flour
When fine flour is being sieved, it falls lightly
to the floor without a sound; snow falls just as
silently.
-- Pandita Ramabai, The Peoples of the United
States (1889)
astonishing
The most astonishing one for me is the sound
of snow falling.
-- Maureen Smith, Full Tilt Living (2001)
dreamy
Dream sound. Snow.
-- Hayden Carruth, Collected Longer Poems
(1993)