Nettles – Quotes

There are nettles everywhere,

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As well as any

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. Edward Thomas

I am not kind,

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles. Edna O’Brien

My mother\’s great line

My mother’s great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don’t somebody else will. Fiona Wood

A man should not

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles. Czeslaw Milosz

Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don’t look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by, Kerouac wrote. Trails are like that: you’re floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you’re … Read more

A white truffle, which

A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and … Read more

Chorus of women: […]

Chorus of women: […] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way. Aristophanes

Sweet to me was

Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind’s voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all. Anna Akhmatova