Dragonflies Quote by Kobayashi Issa

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“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

“dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.”

— Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Summer skylarks Dart about the heavens Above the deep mountains.

— Dakotsu Iida

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

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

— Emily Dickinson

I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts…

— Confucius

“I have been seeing dragons again. Last night, hunched on a beaver dam, one held a body like a badly held cocktail; his tail,…

— Michael Ondaatje

Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.

— Lorine Niedecker

“the dragonfly symbolizes change in the perspective of self-realization? Change in mental and emotional maturity and in the understanding of the deeper meaning of…

— Stacy Green

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel…

— John Buchan