“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”
— Robert Jordan, book The Eye of the World
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
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T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat
The Evolution of A Revolt (1920)
Context: Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought practicing the stroke so often that at the crisis it is as natural as a reflex.
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
Source: And Then There Were None
“Petals floating by, Drift through my woman’s hand, As she remembers me.”
David Brin book Startide Rising
Source: Startide Rising (1983), Chapter 103 (p. 418)
“The old pond:
A frog jumps in,—
The sound of the water.”
古池や<br>蛙飛び込む<br>水の音 <br class="br">furu ike ya<br>kawazu tobikomu<br>mizu no oto <br class="br">Classical Japanese Database, Translation #64 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/64 (Translation: Reginald Horace Blyth) <br class="br">At the ancient pond<br>the frog plunges into<br>the sound of water <br class="br">Translation: Sam Hamill <br class="br">Old pond,<br>leap-splash &ndash;<br>a frog. <br class="br">Basho, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, London, 1985, p. 58 (Translation: Lucien Stryk) <br class="br">Breaking the silence<br>Of an ancient pond,<br>A frog jumped into water &ndash;<br>A deep resonance. <br class="br">Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, London, 1966, p. 9 (Translation: Nobuyuki Yuasa) <br class="br">Individual poems
“Mountain-rose petals
Falling, falling, falling now…
Waterfall music”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”
Stephen King book Bag of Bones
Source: Bag of Bones
“Ripples on a pond cannot touch a bird hovering above it.”
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 18, “Dream Storm” Section 14 (p. 250)