Bud Quotes - Page 14

• Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  World, Spirit, Innocence

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.326, Random House

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• Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Flower, Night, Rose

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• Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

  Dorothy Parker

  Flower, Years, Rose

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Men, Confusion

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
  And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
  An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
  Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
  The childing autumn, angry winter, change
  Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
  By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Spring

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

  Walter de La Mare

  Men, Wind, Rose

  The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "All That's Past"

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• [Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Special, Normal

  "Golf: The Marvelous Mania".

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