Pollen Quotes

• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Reading, Mind

  1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

  Slash Coleman

  Heart, Love Is, Bees

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• But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their pollen. Trees can't move either, but birds and animals eat their fruit and carry their seeds far and wide.

  Nahoko Uehashi

  Flower, Moving, Animal

  Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

  Christian Konrad Sprengel

  Nature, Flower, Science

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• Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.

  Gladys Taber

  Running, Wind Blowing, Voice

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• Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

  Willis Regier

  Flattery

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Path, Wonderful, Behinds

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• It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

  Anne Sexton

  Religious, Morning, Heart

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don’t want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the potential of all this.

  Wolfgang Laib

  Secret, Want

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• Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

  Alice Hoffman

  Air, Yellow, September

  Alice Hoffman (2001). “The River King”, p.14, Penguin Group

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• Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Blow, Sky, Doe

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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• A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.

  George M. Church

  Beautiful, Flower, Color

  "Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back from the Dead?". Interview with Philip Bethge, Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. January 18, 2013.

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• I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

  Pablo Neruda

  Water, Bird, Rising

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• I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is incredible, that is beyond the imagination, something which you cannot believe is a reality-and it is the most real. I could not make it myself, I could not create it myself, but I can participate in it. Trying to create it yourself is only a tragedy, participating in it is a big chance.

  Wolfgang Laib

  Real, Believe, Artist

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• Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Jobs, Work

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

  Hilda Doolittle

  Cities, Venice, Gold

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.556, New Directions Publishing

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• Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.

  George Iles

  Nature, Science, Next

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• The pollen count, now that's a difficult job. Especially if you've got hay fever.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Apples, Swans

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.

  Deena Metzger

  Grief, Eye, Agony

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• In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Morning, Prayer, Children

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• Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could out-compete real bacteria: They could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days. Dangerous replicators could easily be too tough, small, and rapidly spreading to stop - at least if we make no preparation. We have trouble enough controlling viruses and fruit flies.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Real, Cells, Dust

  K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of creation”, Anchor Books

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• Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled; The bee that takes the pollen to the flower; The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;-- Each but obeys creative Love's behest, Which everywhere instinctively is done.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Uplifting, Flower

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.

  Beth Orton

  Blow, Essence, Poison

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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• We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.

  Emma Donoghue

  Grandma, Names, Tree

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