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Quotes About Willow

it closed, created a clasp from willow twigs that he'd soaked to soften and
~ Lois Lowry
I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.
~ Miranda Kerr
Willow and I definitely talked about doing a collaboration. She really loves rock music, so she wants to come on and get crazy with me on a track. Which I would love, because she has a fantastic voice.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.
~ Rumi
Weeping willow, weeping willow, branches waving like the sea, While I'm lying on my pillow, come and take my pain from me… Hell
~ Margaret Atwood
All a green willow, willow, willow,All a green willow is my garland.
~ John Heywood
The bandy little elf sat cross-legged in the embrace of a shaggy great willow, a triple pipe held in his hands and his head bowed over it. He blew breath through the reeds, but his fingers poised unmoving and the sound that whispered forth was more the wind through withies than any tune that Kit could call.
~ Elizabeth Bear
With a warbler for a soul, it sleeps peacefully, this mountain willow.
~ Sam Hamill
Everything has a spirit: the willow tree with leaves that kiss the pond, the stream that feeds the river, the wind that exhales fresh snow . . .And those spirits want to kill you. It's the first lesson that every Renthian learns.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
Well, I warn you, love, that if you cast me out I shall build me a willow cabin at your gates - and likely die of inflammation of the lungs, for November is *not the month for building willow cabins!
~ Georgette Heyer
birch twigs, and a willow binding. The ash is protective, the birch is purifying, and the willow is sacred to the Goddesss. Of
~ Scott Cunningham
This is the vowel of earth dreaming its root in flowers and snow, mutation of weathers and seasons, a windfall composing the floor it rots into. I grew out of all this like a weeping willow inclined to the appetites of gravity.
~ Seamus Heaney
Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!
~ George Pope Morris
He'd gotten into a fight with his sister, Splayfoot, over a particularly juicy dwarf willow he'd found. Just as he had prised the branches from the ground and had begun to strip them of their succulent leaves, the calf had come bustling over to him and had tried to push him away so she could get at the willow herself. His willow.
~ Stephen Baxter
Willow tree And whispers three Together make a tasty tea In forests they do glow Whence we do not know But in the teapot they will go
~ Shannon Hale
Today at the Melchor market, a fantastical sight. A servant girl with a birdcage on her back, full of birds. She wore her blue shawl wrapped around the cage and tied in front to hold it. The willow cage must have been very light because she was not bent over, yet it towered over her head, with turrets like a Japanese pagoda. And full of birds: green and yellow, flapping about like dreams trying to escape from a skull.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
~ William Shakespeare
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.
~ Pink
Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.
~ Les Dawson
All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.
~ John Heywood
The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.
~ Haruki Murakami
Sleep not under a willow tree for she weeps many tears.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
~ William Carlos Williams
Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!
~ Edgar Allan Poe