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title: "41 Dragonflies Quotes by 41 authors"
description: "Browse 41 Dragonflies quotes by 41 authors. Discover the best Dragonflies sayings and thoughts."
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> [As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-manley-hopkins/as-kingfishers-catch-fire-dragonflies-draw-flame/)

[Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-manley-hopkins/)

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> [“Dragonflies say "mystery" to me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cindy-crosby/dragonflies-say-mystery-to-me/)

[Cindy Crosby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cindy-crosby/)

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> [Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobayashi-issa/reflected-in-the-dragonfly-s-eye-mountains/)

[Kobayashi Issa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobayashi-issa/)

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> [Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorine-niedecker/smile-to-see-the-lake-lay-the-still-sky-and-out-for-an-easy-make-the/)

[Lorine Niedecker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorine-niedecker/)

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> [Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/their-love-as-a-dragonfly-skimming-over-echo-park-stoppin-to-visit/)

[Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/)

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> [If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-barnes/if-you-are-old-and-you-wish-to-be-young-again-if-only-for-a-moment/)

[Simon Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-barnes/)

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> [“dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandria-marzano-lesnevich/dragonflies-circled-me-the-sun-knifing-off-the-brilliant-blues-and/)

[Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandria-marzano-lesnevich/)

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> [Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dante-gabriel-rossetti/deep-in-the-sun-searched-growths-the-dragonfly-hangs-like-a-blue/)

[Dante Gabriel Rossetti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dante-gabriel-rossetti/)

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> [“Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/bees-and-butterflies-moths-and-dragonflies-the-flowers-and-the-brooks/)

[George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/)

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> [Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/time-is-for-dragonflies-and-angels-the-former-live-too-little-and-the/)

[James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/)

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> [I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mackenzie-foy/i-got-to-keep-a-clip-for-my-hair-it-had-a-pretty-little-dragonfly-on/)

[Mackenzie Foy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mackenzie-foy/)

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> [Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-conan-doyle/clouds-of-insects-danced-and-buzzed-in-the-golden-autumn-light-and/)

[Arthur Conan Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-conan-doyle/)

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> [Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-tobey/sitting-on-the-floor-of-a-room-in-japan-looking-out-on-a-small-garden/)

[Mark Tobey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-tobey/)

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> [“A barge of mist floated along the water, and dragonflies, iridescent blue ones, darted back and forth like they were stitching up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/a-barge-of-mist-floated-along-the-water-and-dragonflies-iridescent/)

[Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/)

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> [Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joni-mitchell/yesterday-a-child-came-out-to-wonder-caught-a-dragonfly-inside-a-jar/)

[Joni Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joni-mitchell/)

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> [“Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-miller/sounds-buzz-around-me-and-i-m-sure-the-painted-dragonflies-have-come/)

[Sarah Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-miller/)

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> [I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-hopkins/i-need-to-capture-my-sprite-with-trembling-hands-except-i-could-crush/)

[Ellen Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-hopkins/)

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> [Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-ackerman/who-would-deduce-the-dragonfly-from-the-larva-the-iris-from-the-bud/)

[Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-ackerman/)

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> [“She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/she-was-a-fly-but-the-others-were-dragonflies-butterflies-beautiful/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amor-towles/anyone-can-buy-a-car-or-a-night-on-the-town-most-of-us-shell-our-days/)

[Amor Towles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amor-towles/)

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> [The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/the-point-of-the-dragonfly-s-terrible-lip-the-giant-water-bug/)

[Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/)

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> [Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/italo-calvino/perhaps-everything-lies-in-knowing-what-words-to-speak-what-actions/)

[Italo Calvino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/italo-calvino/)

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> [“Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she's just sitting on the veranda, looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ozeki/old-jiko-is-supercareful-with-her-time-she-does-everything-really/)

[Ruth Ozeki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ozeki/)

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> [The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/the-beauteous-dragonfly-s-dancing-by-the-waves-of-the-rivulet/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

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> [And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-barker/and-in-time-it-will-be-as-though-men-had-never-come-to-this-perfect/)

[Clive Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-barker/)

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> [Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-harrison/go-to-sleep-baby-mama-will-sing-of-blue-butterflies-and-dragonfly-2/)

[Kim Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-harrison/)

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> [“At night she’d close her eyes and imagine: over a hundred million billion insects hatching and dying every year—all those bristling, pointed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-doerr/at-night-she-d-close-her-eyes-and-imagine-over-a-hundred-million/)

[Anthony Doerr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-doerr/)

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> [Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/question-four-what-book-would-you-give-to-every-child-answer-i-wouldn/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

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> [“As a child, crisp spring afternoons were spent wading along Reedy Creek just beyond the field. Then came the heavy breeze in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lingerfelt/as-a-child-crisp-spring-afternoons-were-spent-wading-along-reedy/)

[James Russell Lingerfelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lingerfelt/)

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> [Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terryl-l-givens/without-constraint-without-any-form-of-mental-compulsion-the-act-of/)

[Terryl L. Givens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terryl-l-givens/)

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> [It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimi-hendrix/it-s-very-far-away-it-takes-about-a-half-a-day-to-get-there-if-we/)

[Jimi Hendrix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimi-hendrix/)

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> [“With my arms wrapped around Rosebud, I dreamed of heather-topped hills and sleepy valleys and a pretty woodland stream where dragonflies danced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hazel-gaynor/with-my-arms-wrapped-around-rosebud-i-dreamed-of-heather-topped-hills/)

[Hazel Gaynor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hazel-gaynor/)

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> [Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-jansson/sophia-and-grandmother-sat-down-by-the-shore-to-discuss-the-matter/)

[Tove Jansson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-jansson/)

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> [Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/twisting-through-the-thorn-thick-underbrush-scratched-and-exhausted/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

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> [Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-saroyan/whoever-the-kid-had-been-whoever-had-the-grand-attitude-has-finally/)

[William Saroyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-saroyan/)

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> [I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/i-ll-be-looking-for-you-will-every-moment-every-single-moment-and/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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> [Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/unless-you-are-here-this-garden-refuses-to-exist-pink-dragonflies/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/he-was-becoming-unstuck-he-was-sure-of-that-his-bones-were-no-longer/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-marsden/so-that-was-nature-s-way-the-mosquito-felt-pain-and-panic-but-the/)

[John Marsden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-marsden/)

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> [“There'll be the lightning bugs with their Morse code display, And shooting stars and constellations to befriend; The dragonflies will keep us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mariecor-ruediger/there-ll-be-the-lightning-bugs-with-their-morse-code-display-and/)

[Mariecor Ruediger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mariecor-ruediger/)

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                        "text": "Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart",
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                        "text": "The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn'tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.",
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                        "text": "Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly.",
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                        "text": "“Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she's just sitting on the veranda, looking out at the dragonflies spinning lazily around the garden pond. She says that she does everything really really slowly in order to spread time out so that she'll have more of it and live longer, and then she laughs so that you know she is telling you a joke.”",
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                        "text": "The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...",
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                        "text": "And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness.",
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                        "text": "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)",
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                        "text": "“At night she’d close her eyes and imagine: over a hundred million billion insects hatching and dying every year—all those bristling, pointed, winged lifetimes: murderers and egg raiders, cooperators and queens. There were the glamorous dragonflies and fearsome widows; slave-holding ants; migrating monarchs; the delicate mantid chewing down her lover; dragonflies making love at thirty miles an hour—all the flagships of entomology. But”",
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                        "text": "Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.",
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                        "text": "“As a child, crisp spring afternoons were spent wading along Reedy Creek just beyond the field. Then came the heavy breeze in the autumn, pushing off the almond, auburn, sugar-yellow and apple-red leaves into the creek, providing rafts for dragonflies. In winter, the snow upon the wood became an eerie deep, and the occasional gliding of an owl would be spotted from our bedroom. Then, to spend an afternoon walking in a snowy wood and find a scarlet red cardinal perched on a white limb, you would think God arranged that picture just for you.”",
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                        "text": "Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.",
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                        "text": "It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.",
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                        "text": "Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.",
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                        "text": "I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...",
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                        "text": "Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms",
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