“Let me not so much be lost in involvements
as would make me incapable of
recognizing the fragrance of the flower
beaming in my own yard.”
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Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967Related quotes
Home Burial (1915)
Context: A man must partly give up being a man
With womenfolk. We could have some arrangement
By which I'd bind myself to keep hands off
Anything special you're a-mind to name.
Though I don't like such things 'twixt those that love.
Two that don't love can't live together without them.
But two that do can't live together with them."
She moved the latch a little. "Don't — don't go.
Don't carry it to someone else this time.
Tell me about it if it's something human.
Let me into your grief. I'm not so much
Unlike other folks as your standing there
Apart would make me out. Give me my chance.
“It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”
Quoted in People magazine, 10 November 1980 http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20077832,00.html
Honda, interviewed by James Bailey, Tokyo Journal, April 1991
From a poem (c. 1920) in the Australian publication The Triad, as quoted in Out of the Sky She Came: The Life of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins (1999) by Valerie Lawson, ISBN 0733610722</small> [U.S. and U.K. title: Mary Poppins, She Wrote : The Life of P. L. Travers (2006) <small> ISBN 0743298160]
"Dolce far Niente", Stanza 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.”
Song 22: "Against Pride in Clothes".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
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Quotes from the Judgment from Honorable Justice Agarwal, 2010