Quotes for All
You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars. Then you reached out … Read more
If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it’s only because it doesn’t know that the fire can consume it. Deborah Harkness
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. Carl Sandburg
His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. “I could’ve made you happy, dove.” “You did,” I whispered Ann Aguirre
Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its … Read more
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller