Dragonflies Quotes

“Magic is seeing wonder in nature's every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies.”
― Ama H.Vanniarachchy

“Dragonflies are reminders that we are light and we can reflect light in powerful ways if we choose to do so.”
― Robyn Nola

“I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies... there is magic in it.”
― Ama H.Vanniarachchy

“Hurricane Katrina arrived without a confirmed weather category, or a name that adequately addressed anger summoned from a thousand leagues down. When the levees broke in New Orleans images escaped television screens to tattoo every skin with the shameful reality that America’s towers fell twice. There was no phoenix. Only mosquitoes escaped the ashes, promising to puncture any still unbloodied with the needle kiss of plague.
Then, a great swarm of dragonflies, sent by some other to even the odds. They feasted on the thin-limbed vampires, devoured body and virus, and then hovered around the floating bloated bodies of forgotten grandmothers, armored escorts of the dead. Their wings hummed swamp sonnets while their mouths swallowed maggots, thwarting attempts to hurry death beyond spring sunsets and autumn graves. They kept up their holy procession until New Orleans rebirthed jazz and cut the bodies loose and let saints march in all over again.
As I steer my bike through one puddle after the other, making the street music urban rainforest dwellers know, I ask the splash to summon the dragonfly. Call her from the swamp into my throat to name the lump that will never loose me. Be my escort, gobble the flies ever entering me before their children become my whole.”
― Amanda Sledz, Psychopomp Volume One: Cracked Plate

“The Dragonfly Charm

Embrace The Magic of Nature & Life Will Be Filled with Good Fortune”
― Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

“The world is a fascinating place. How could anyone be bored? Look around and there are a hundred amazing things to investigate.”
― Cindy Crosby, Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History

“Dragonflies are an endless pleasure.”
― Cindy Crosby, Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History

“When you pay attention, you prop the door of your soul ajar to welcome the unexpected and the uncontrolled... . You can't access your interior landscape by banging down a closed door; you can pencil it in as an appointment on your calendar. Paying attention is a habit forming mind-set that comes with repetition and with intention. You give yourself permissiong to "do nothing." You create quiet spaces. You open a door.”
― Cindy Crosby, Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History

“Chasing dragonflies, like buying good books or eating gourmet food, can be curiously addicting.”
― Cindy Crosby, Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History

“Dragonflies say "mystery" to me.”
― Cindy Crosby, Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History

“from THE PAUSE BETWEEN


One day the dragonflies appear sudden as the sun.
Speed and softness, they lash sky to air in silent seams.
One's barred wings and abdomen are pressing

to the warm dock's slats. Another lights on the Chekhov book
you bought me, not realizing, like everything, it is a short
story, too.”
― Ken Craft, Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems

“I'm inspired by how dragonflies are both tough and fragile; fierce and mild.”
― Cindy Crosby, Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History

“There are so many reasons to fall in love with dragonflies. They have intriguing stories to tell us. They make our world a more beautiful place. And they are scrappy survivors.”
― Cindy Crosby, Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History

“Dragonflies hover on an abundance of air.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“When we were children, everything scared us. The harmless dragonfly, for example, was called 'the devil's darning needle.' The creature hovered all around us int he summertime, ready to sew up the ears and lips of disobedient children. To us, even a common snipe, owl, or bittern calling from the marsh, might be a voice from the other side.”
― Tom Dawe, Spirited Away: Fairy stories of old Newfoundland