“The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.” GoldCloudsSnowWanderButterflyPerpetualIdle Book:Songs of the Sun-lands Source: Songs of the Sun-lands
“What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.” ThinkingMenHumansSeemsAbleQualityMoralPersonalityIntellectualGoldWingsAddDustCharmButterflyGrainAurasPeachesHuman PersonalityGold Dust Author:Flora Thompson
“They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.” PeopleWorldTryingChildrenPersonsFactsImaginationStupidObjectsGoldPursueButterflyTranslateDelightfulFloating Author:Woodrow Wilson
“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.” WantRealizingWorkGoldIntentionAspirationButterflyStoppingChasingDiggingPractical KnowledgeChasing Butterflies Author:William Moulton Marston
“Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction)” BlackSleepMagicMinesBabyFineGoldBlueWingsDemonSilverButterflyMoonlightMamaSanctionsGoing To SleepLambsPierceKimLullabySunbeamsBlack MagicBaby SisterDragonfliesBaby Mama Author:Kim Harrison
“The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.” WorldWayChildrenBeautifulRocksFlowerMoonGoldLovelyForestsAwakeStreamsButterflyDelightfulDistrustBugsGoatsChildlike Book:Siddhartha Source: Siddhartha
“Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.” LoveLifeHeartSkyColdGoldRoundsOne TimeButterflyWeavingSeersOld Love Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne
“A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.” TogetherAmericaMillionsGoldRoseSouthStormButterflySpainFlewSouth AmericaMonarch Butterfly Book:New and selected poems Source: New and selected poems