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Crystals Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry…
- If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men…
More Crystals Quotes
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections. — Diane Ackerman
- I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into… — John Berger
- In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English.… — Gael Garcia Bernal
- What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. — Robert Browning
- Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so… — T.A. Barron
- ...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou
- Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers… — James Joyce
- Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
- I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who… — Mark Twain