The Robins stand as thick today
As flakes of snow stood yesterday --
On fence -- and Roof -- and Twig!
The Robins stand as thick today
As flakes of snow stood yesterday --
On fence -- and Roof -- and Twig!
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.
Criticism is properly the rod of divination a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something Thats like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories