Monarch Butterfly Quotes - Page 2

• This great purple butterfly,
  In the prison of my hands,
  Has a learning in his eye
  Not a poor fool understands.

  William Butler Yeats

  Butterfly, Eye, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.144, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Butterfly, Winter

  "Solstice Joy" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2011.

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• When you awaken in the morning's hush
  I am the swift uplifting rush
  Of quiet birds in circled flight.
  I am the soft stars that shine at night.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry;
  I am not there, I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

  Mary Elizabeth Frye, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep”

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• 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

  Lying, Flower, Butterfly

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.

  Winfield Townley Scott

  Butterfly, America, Rose

  Winfield Townley Scott (1967). “New and selected poems”

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

  Robert Graves

  Art, Butterfly, White

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Anna Pavlova

  Love, Children, Butterfly

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• 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.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Butterfly, Night

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• 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

  Teacher, Butterfly, Hair

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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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

  Butterfly, Angel, Judgment

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri

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

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Children, Butterfly

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• 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.

  Isaac Watts

  Nature, Flower, Butterfly

  'Against Pride in Clothes' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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• Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?

  Dana Burnet

  Dream, Butterfly, Wind

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Butterfly

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

  Isaac Watts

  Flower, Butterfly, Worms

  'Against Pride in Clothes' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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