Ice Quotes

“Grief howls in a suburban street, wild
as Demeter, who put the world to sleep,
a mother in perpetual winter weeps
for Persephone, her stolen child.”
― Gillian Clarke, Ice

“I want to follow him over the snows
between the immaculate earth and now,
between the silence and the shot that rang
over the ice at the top of the globe,
when the map of the earth was something we
knew by heart,
and they had not shot the bear,
had not loosed the ice,
had not, had not....”
― Gillian Clarke, Ice

“Take the great adventure
of living the difficult day.

- Home for Christmas”
― Gillian Clarke, Ice