Wings I saw springing
from fair women's shoulders,
and from beneath rubble
I've seen butterflies flutter.
--
I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273Jose Marti
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
Carl Sagan
: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).
Flutter, flutter.Larry Wall
I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women - at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Godess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.
John Keats
I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.
Og Mandino
You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
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