„Butterflies are not insects,’ Captain John Sterling said soberly. ‘They are self-propelled flowers.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„Butterflies are self propelled flowers.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.“
— Hans Christian Andersen
„And Ezra Pound and T. S. EliotFighting in the captain's towerWhile calypso singers laugh at themAnd fishermen hold flowers…“
— Bob Dylan
„Why make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue.“
— Robert Frost
„Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.“
— Virginia Woolf
„The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain“
— Padre Pio
„The rain to the wind said,'You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bed.That the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged -- though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.“
— Robert Frost