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“I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.”

Suffering Flower Regret Shore Worms Limbs Clay Trunks Pulp

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night. I am afraid of being, on this shore, a branchless trunk, and what I most regret is having no flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my despair. If you are my hidden treasure, if you are my cross, my dampened pain, if I am a dog, and you alone my master, never let me lose what I have gained, and adorn the branches of your river with leaves of my estranged Autumn.”

“The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.”

Flower Regret Lovely Bees

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”

Beautiful Felt Flower Regret Autumn September Orange

Book:Darconville's cat

Source: Darconville's cat

“She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.”

Men Way Might Break Flower Regret Storm Gentle Fragile Fury Music Love Departure Snares Godlike Way Of Love Love And Flower

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.”

“Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.”

Ifs Reality Hate Fall Passion Grows Growing Flower Regret Absolutes Attraction Weed Manifest Don't Hate Don't Regret Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Book:Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan

Source: Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan