THE LACY WINGS OF DRAGONFLIES NOW

Enjoy these beautiful images and ideas about the lace-winged dragonfly.

“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”

-- Diane Ackerman

“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

“Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stopping to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.”

-- Janet Fitch, “Paint it Black.”

“This was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one of which our eyes told us, a world that no words could delineate, as insubstantial as a cloud, as iridescent as a dragon-fly and as innocent as the heart of a rose.”

-- Elspeth Huxley, “The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.”

“The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?”

― Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables.”

“Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.”

― John Galsworthy, “The Forsyte Saga.”

“I feel the fluttering

of dragonflies—summer creatures

that have no use for words.”

 

― Larissa Nash, Emerge Literary Journal.

“You don’t think the two of you can hover forever in mid-air like two dragonflies making love?”

― Yukio Mishima, “Spring Snow.”

“Friend who has fired the kingfishers

and flamed the dragonflies –

they catch your light however they move

and beam it out of their eyes.”

 

― Bryana Johnson, “Having Decided To Stay.”

“The multiplicity of forms! The hummingbird, the fox, the raven, the sparrow hawk, the otter, the dragonfly, the water lily! And on and on. It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.”

― Mary Oliver, “Blue Horses: Poems.”

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by David Cook. “Dragonfly (Papua New Guinea).”
2. Image: by Dennis. “Libellen-Tandem.”
3. Image: by Vicki DeLoach. “A July Halloween pennant.”
4. Image: by Bahman Farzad. “Close up.”
5. Image: by Geo Beat News. “Dragonflies are Incredibly Efficient Hunters.”
6. Image: by Troup Dresser. “Dragonfly.”
7. Image: by Bernhard Sauter. Untitled.
8. Image: by Bill Gracey. “Blue Dragonfly in a Green and Brown World.”
9. Image: by Toshihiro Gamo. “Red Dragonfly (Autumn Darter).”
10. Image: by Yanowa00. “Dragonfly.”
11. Image: by John 'K'. “I spy a dragonfly…”
12. Image: by Anvay Nakade. “Dragonfly.”
13. Image: by Ana_Cotta. “Dragonfly poser - Libélula - dragonfly - libelinha.”
14. Image: by BN App - Download now!
15. Image: by Vicki DeLoach. “Teneral Male Painted Skimmer.”