Source: Love Poems
“Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.”
“If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
St. 6
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
“Today greets you in the morning with an embrace and a kiss. How will you greet it back?”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73
“But magic can't operate without a magician, and being a magician can beat a man to his knees.”
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal
“That such a moth exists in Madagascar may be safely predicted”
"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!
