quotes about Dragonflies

last updated: November 28, 2023

Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won't be owned.
-- Dana Gioia

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.47, Macmillan

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The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...
-- Heinrich Heine

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Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.
-- Kobayashi Issa

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I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep it
-- Mackenzie Foy

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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
-- Ziggy Marley

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“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.730, Simon and Schuster
“Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.”
“Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934
“Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know.Â The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.”
“Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.”

Source : Henry Moore (1986). “Henry Moore”, Hodder & Stoughton
“Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.”

Source : Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. April 11, 2010.
“I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.”

Source : "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.
“From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.74, VM eBooks
“Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.”
“Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.”