David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.
I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings!
The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
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