Afternoon Quote by Lisel Mueller

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

— Isaac Watts

“Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower." "Maybe, but honey is sweet , you know?”

— Colleen Coover

slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.

— Denise Levertov

“Honey Locust" Who can tell how lovely in June is the honey locust tree, or why a tree should be so sweet and live…

— Mary Oliver

Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of…

— Pliny the Elder

Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.

— Alison Croggon

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

— Jerry Spinelli

“Mix the sweet and the sad the dark and the light. Stir it like honey syrup then pour it into the twilight.”

— Elizabeth Novak

“If you hide honey in the dark, bees will still find it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

— George Santayana

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

— Pindar

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

— Martial