Butterfly Quotes - Page 15

• The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Beautiful, Joy, Becoming

  Cynthia Ozick (1991). “The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories”, E P Dutton

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• Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dark, Kissing, Years

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.125, Knopf

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• There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself.... Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Soul, Cocoons

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.959, Manonmani Publishers

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• I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Bird, Together, Unions

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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• There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Two, Design

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.501, Ageless Reads

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• You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

  T.A. Barron

  Stars, Wings, Soul

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• The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.

  Humphry Davy

  Greek, Three, Poet

  Sir Humphry Davy (1870). “Salmonia: Or, Days of Fly Fishing. With Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo”, p.218

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• She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her mind. She doesn't want me to dress better or put highlights in my hair or serious up. I'm not a lifestyle accessory to her. I'm a necessity. I'm the guy that's going to crack open her cocoon. She doesn't need to change me - she needs me to change her. At least until her little butterfly wings get strong enough to fly away.

  Tim Tharp

  Girl, Strong, Reading

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.145, Scholastic UK

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• The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.

  Ruth Rudner

  Joy, Let It Go, Able

  Ruth Rudner (1978). “Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Love, Rain, Dark

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• Tel Aviv, Israel, me, Robbie Williams. I'm coming to see you. It's like a first date. I've got butterflies in my stomache, I can't wait. I hope you feel the same way too. There will be singing, there will be dancing, there will be banter, there will be love. Mainly from me, beaming it to you, from my heart into your heads and minds.

  Robbie Williams

  Heart, Israel, Dancing

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• You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

  Timothy Leary

  Use, Language, Caterpillars

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• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Work, Taken, Knowledge

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• Forgettingis a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Beautiful, Forget You, Caterpillars

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• I said that I’m a fairy… and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking.

  Sasha Pivovarova

  Hate, Talking, Fairy

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• I have butterflies in my stomach.

  Zane

  Stomach, Butterflies In My Stomach

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• The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

  Sting

  Trying, Taxation, World

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• The most I can do is to acquaint you with the authority of your own psyche - to give you a trust in the nature of your being. For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. You can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through back yards.

  Seth

  Trust, Giving, Yards

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• I've got butterflies in my stomach... because I ate a cocoon quesadilla!

  Stephen Colbert

  Cocoons, Stomach, Butterflies In My Stomach

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• Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Eye, Blue

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.271, Everyman's Library

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• The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

  Joyce Brothers

  Finding Love, Balance, Rebel

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• It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Yellow, Appearance

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• A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Teacher, Art, Children

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• My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

  Freddie Mercury

  Wings, Yesterday, Soul

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• Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Artist, Thinking

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