Butterflies Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

7 Butterflies Quotes
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“I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: I'd be a Butterfly
“Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?”
Dana Burnet Quotes
Source: A Sail at Twilight
“With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.”
Heinrich Heine Quotes
Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (no. 7)
“Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail, We saw a snow-white butterfly Dancing before the fitful gale, Far out at sea.”
Richard Hengist Horne Quotes
Source: Genius
“The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow. - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),”
Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) Quotes
Source: Songs of the Sun-Lands--Isles of the Amazons (pt. III, st. 41)
“And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Source: Sensitive Plant
“Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart.”
William Wordsworth Quotes
Source: To a Butterfly