Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907) British writer
Mandragora, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Like a moth to a flame
Burned by the fire.
My love is blind
Can't you see my desire?”
Janet Jackson (1966) singer from the United States
That's the Way Love Goes
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“Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi
“Being kissed on the back
of the knee is a moth
at the windowscreen….”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: Love Poems
“That such a moth exists in Madagascar may be safely predicted”
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist
"Creation by law". Quarterly Journal of Science 4: 470–488 (1867); The hawkmoth of Madagascar was later found and described in 1903, under the taxon name praedicta in reference to Wallace's quote.
Context: I have carefully measured the proboscis of a specimen of [Neococytius] cluentius from South America in the collection of the British Museum, and find it to be nine inches and a quarter long! One from tropical Africa ([Xanthopan] morganii) is seven inches and a half. A species having a proboscis two or three inches longer could reach the nectar in the largest flowers of Angræcum sesquipedale, whose nectaries vary in length from ten to fourteen inches. That such a moth exists in Madagascar may be safely predicted; and naturalists who visit that island should search for it with as much confidence as astronomers searched for the planet Neptune - and they will be equally successful!
“A sensitive person gets burned, like a delicate moth.”
Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher
Der Sensible muß verbrennen, dieser zarte Nachtfalter.
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The Piano Teacher (1988)
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician