Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"A Song On the End of the World" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19195
“The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Nature, p. 110
Collected Poems (1993)
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
"Divided", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) U.S. poet
Red Clover; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 122.
“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
Mark Nepo (1951) American writer
“You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.”
Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“I am the bee that will make honey for all.”
Filipe Nyusi (1959) Mozambican politician
Explaining the meaning of his name in his native Makonde language. AFP https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/mozambique-gears-key-vote-002759683.html
“My banks they are furnish’d with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.”
William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener
A Pastoral, part II, "Hope".
