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  • Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

    Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri
  • But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

    Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”
  • Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  • The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

    Art   Butterfly   White  
    Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

    William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr
  • The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.

  • When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

  • The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

    Pain   Butterfly   Winter  
    "Solstice Joy" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2011.
  • When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

  • The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

    'Against Pride in Clothes' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)
  • There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  • Listen with your heart, you will understand.

    Song: Listen With Your Heart I
  • I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!

    William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.254, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 15, 2013
  • Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

    Flower   Butterfly   Bird  
  • Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

  • The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

    Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.438, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
  • I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

    Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)
  • Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

  • I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

    Art   Butterfly   Night  
  • What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

    "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.
  • Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

    'Against Pride in Clothes' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)
  • We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.49, Ballantine Books
  • The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Witty  
    "Why My Journey Of Grief Is So Like A Butterfly’s Metamorphosis" by Laurie Burrows Grad, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2016.
  • This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

    Butterfly   Eye   Garden  
    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.144, Wordsworth Editions
  • My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.

    Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
  • There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.

  • I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

    Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
  • They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

    Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc
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