The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time
enough.
May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun
And find your shoulder to light on,
To bring you luck, happiness and riches
Today, tomorrow and beyond.
~Irish Blessing
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no
butterflies.
The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the
publicity.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a
butterfly.
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, "Blue-Butterfly Day"
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow.
Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but
approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of
life.
The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just
beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may
alight upon you.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a
butterfly.
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had
surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
With the rose the butterfly's deep in love,
A thousand times hovering round;
But round himself, all tender like gold,
The sun's sweet ray is hovering found...
~Heinrich Heine, "New Spring," 1826, translated from German in the
original metre by Edgar Alfred Bowring
The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose,
And flirted around all day;
While round him in turn with her golden caress,
Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray....
I know not with whom the rose was in love,
But I know that I loved them all.
The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray,
The star and the bird's sweet call.
~Heinrich Heine, "A New Spring," 1826, translated from German by
Charles Godfrey Leland, Pictures of Travel, 1855
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have
sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Love is like a butterfly:
I've watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly!
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless! - not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!
~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"
I only ask to be free.
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and
symmetry:
And what's a butterfly? At best,
He's but a caterpillar, at rest.
~John Grey
Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating
spring.
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is
forever.
This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
~William Butler Yeats, "Another Song of a Fool"
[N]ot quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and
fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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, "Flying Crooked"
The green grass and the happy skies
court the fluttering butterflies.
~Terri Guillemets
Know thyself!
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms,
Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly
That flieth unto judgment without screen?
~Dante Alighieri
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