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Tag Name "Willow" (59)

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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
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I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather, one ancient willow managed a few gray pussy willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred gray background.
Ann Zwinger
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
Ann Brashares
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
Walter Scott
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Willow: Hey, clothes. Tara: Better not get used to 'em.
Amber Benson
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Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening? Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, I feel like I'm underachieving.
Jaden Smith
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A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.
L.A. Weatherly
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Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge
William Carlos Williams
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer
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You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.
Rumi
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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
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Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.
Walter Scott
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Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.
Jodi Picoult
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It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.
Catherine Maria Fanshawe
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From some home a jade flute sends dark notes drifting, Scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang. Tonight, if we should hear the willow-breaking song, Who could help but long for the gardens of home?
Li Bai
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
Paul McCartney
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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
Eiji Yoshikawa
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The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?” His throat worked as he swallowed. “It would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me.” --Zane to Willow in 'The Edge of Sin' in the Real Men Last all Night anthology
Cheyenne McCray
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Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.
Bob Pettit
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Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species.
Wayne Allard
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The pine fought the storm and broke. The willow yielded to the wind and snow and did not break. Practice Jiu-Jitsu in just this way.
Kano Jigoro
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Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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