hibernation quotes

Stirring suddenly from long hibernation, I knew myself once more a poet Guarded by timeless principalities Against the worm of death.

- Robert von Ranke Graves
  'Mid- Winter Waking'.

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

-John Henry O'Hara
  Pal Joey, ch.9.