“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”
Source: Chasing Redbird
Quotes about hyacinth
A collection of quotes on the topic of hyacinth.
Quotes about hyacinth
Omar Khayyám
(1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
Carl Sandburg
(1878–1967) American writer and editor
Marcelle Ferron
(1924–2001) Canadian artist
"You speak like the Gospels."
Original in French: La verrière dont je suis la plus fière se trouve au palais de justice de Granby. … À l'inauguration de l'édifice... l'évêque de Saint-Hyacinthe... m'a fait un commentaire qui me rechauffe toujours le coeur.
Pourquoi le troisième étage est-il si beau? N'est-ce pas là ou se trouvent les gens qui attendent leur transfert en prison?
Monseigneur, tout homme a le droit de voir une fleur avant de mourir. Il ne faut pas que les fleurs soient grises.
Vous parlez comme les Évangiles.
L'esquisse d'une mémoire, 1996
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Ancestress (Spoken by Bertha)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Richard Arnold Epstein
(1927) American physicist
Source: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977, Chapter Three, Fundamental Principles Of A Theory Of Gambling, p. 53
Wallace Stevens
(1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Context: The bees came booming as if they had never gone,
As if hyacinths had never gone. We say
This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths
Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause
In a universe of inconstancy. This meansNight-blue is an inconstant thing. The seraph
Is satyr in Saturn, according to his thoughts.