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The white moth to the closing vine,The bee to the open clover,
And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood
Ever the wide world over. — Rudyard Kipling
Is the soul solid, like iron?Or is it tender and breakable, like
the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl. — Mary Oliver
Just now, Out of the strange
Still dusk ... as strange, as still ...
A white moth flew ... Why am I grown
So cold? — Adelaide Crapsey
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
All night your moth-breathFlickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.
A far sea moves in my ear. — Sylvia Plath
Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
— Jalaluddin Rumi
She had done everything she could. And he didn't even know.
— Marie Rutkoski
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
— William Shakespeare
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
— Emile M. Cioran
Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.
— Stephen Richards
But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The white moth of hope fluttered before her face.
— Cornell Woolrich
In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?
— Nathalia Crane
Like the moth whose feet are caught in the molten wax of a candle, Rouget rapidly used up his remaining energy.
— Honore De Balzac
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.
— Gillian Jacobs
But something is always impelling one to hum vibrating, like the hawk moth, at the mouth of the cavern of mystery.
— Virginia Woolf
Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame
— James D. Bradley
I am sorry to shock you," she said. "But the moth eats the garment somewhat in five-and thirty years.
— Thomas Hardy
Despite her love of pineapple on pizza, Lark was perfection. I felt like a love starved moth drawn to the light of her smile.
— Bijou Hunter
Oops, the moth woman mumbles
— Michael Chabon
My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all.
— Arthur Golden
In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.
— Alexis Hall
...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..
— Elizabeth Bishop
Poor moth, I can't help you,I can only turn out the light. — Ryszard Krynicki
She didn't know why she was so attracted to this stranger, like a moth to the flame, but it scared her.
— Lindsay Chamberlin
Maybe the point isn't whether or not you become a moth or a butterfly. Maybe the point is that, either way, you've got wings.
— Autumn Doughton
People were drawn to her the way a moth clings to a porch light, and I was the most hypnotized of all.
— Brielle A. Marino
I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.
— Andrea Zuvich
Social proof is a flame to the human mind moth, and it leaves a fire trail of destruction across the path of enough.
— Will Jelbert
She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy.
— Frances Hardinge
Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.
— Ryan O'Neal
The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.
— Saib Tabrizi
The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.
— Paula Poundstone
loud laughter mixed with the chirp of crickets. A moth hit
— Angela M. Sanders
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
— Annie Proulx
A man killing himself in the pursuit of his dreams is no different in a moth flying into a flame.
— Katherine Pine
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.
— Philip K. Dick
A moth is just a butterfly in love with the moon... So sad that their love can never be that he forgot how to be BEAUTIFUL.
— John Allison
Photographs of girl-children; some gaudy moth or butterfly, still alive, safely pinned to the wall.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I seem to draw the crazies like a moth to a flame. Ian says the bugs come to the light.
— Willow Aster
I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
— Helen Hunt Jackson
Be the flame, not the moth.
— Giacomo Casanova