"Here and there one sees the blush of……" — Hal Borland
"Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest."
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Hal Borland
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58 Quotes by Hal Borland
Hal Borland has 58 quotes on this site.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full…
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is…
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills…
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology…
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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block…
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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due…
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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of…
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a…
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More Bittersweet Quotes
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Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
— J. Lynn
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I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the…
— Will Smith
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I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the…
— Allen Iverson
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At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
— Robert Breault
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We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely…
— Richard Bach
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Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance…
— Phill Jupitus
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
— Sappho
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As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and…
— Chica Umino
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Life at best is bittersweet.
— Jack Kirby
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I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.
— Sarah Silverman
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Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
— Sappho
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In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is…
— Hope Mirrlees
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