Admire Quote by Heinrich Heine

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…

— Heinrich Heine

The dragon-fly is dancing,— Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire…

— Heinrich Heine

“A lovely rainbow arcs across the sky, and beneath it, a butterfly dances — carrying magic on painted wings, fairy-like, drifting on the breeze.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the…

— Virginia Woolf

“That was when I saw the first flash of emerald, then another of blue, then yellow, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye.…

— Hazel Gaynor

With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy…

— Reginald Heber

“They appeared to me like a thin veil of mist, translucent, almost- not quite there. But for all their misty peculiarity, they were as…

— Hazel Gaynor

“A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the…

— James Joyce

“A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in movement but…

— Neal Stephenson

“...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow --…

— Ted Kooser

“Memory Mémoire I Bright water; like the brine of childish tears, the whiteness of women’s bodies against the sun; silken mobs of pure lilies…

— translated by Dennis J. Carlile