Top 8 Dragonflies Quotes

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

Travel, Dragonflies, Half

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

Ziggy Marley

Thinking, Doe, Dragonflies

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Simon Barnes

Wish, Trying, Dragonflies

The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...

Heinrich Heine

Dancing, Dresses, Dragonflies

Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.520

Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won't be owned.

Dana Gioia

Dragonflies, Pieces, Half

Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.47, Macmillan