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“I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.”

Persons I Can Book Beautiful Water Accepting Roles Paint Recognition Idiot Vans Lilies Being A Kid Monet Water Lily

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.”

Source: The Training Of The Human Plant

“In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.”

“A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.”

Grows Water Dark Sleep Silence Air Summer Fairs Green Silent Blow Leap Shore Pale Reign Breeze Violet Lilies Reeds Bending Pansies Summer Breeze Minnows

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.”

Firsts Water Freedom Rain Desert Midst Rejoice Showers Lilies Petals Sandy Shrubs Water Lily Rain Drop

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.”

Firsts Wells I Can Book Ends Remember Water Clear Tree Grew Pleasant Over It Lilies Meadows Ponds Shady Clear Water Water Lily

Book:Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.”

Beautiful Water Nature Walks Tree Sky Wind Rivers Blue Surface Ran Streams Pleasant Touching Delicious Lilies Water Lily

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!”

May Happens Beautiful Fall Water Born Pure Rain Dirty Mud Lilies Ponds Water Lily

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.”

Beautiful Water Hell Floats Lilies Crocodiles Water Lily

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan