#insects

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Insects all business all the time.


David Foster Wallace


#business

The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he's circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He circles lower and lower, spinning around the candle in tighter revolutions, like a soap sud over an open drain. A few times he seems to touch the flame, but dances off unhurt. Then he ignites like a ball of hair, curling into an oily puff of fumes with a hiss. The candle flame flickers and dims for a moment, then burns as bright as before. Moth Smoke Lingers.


Mohsin Hamid


#insects #love #moth #smoke #star-crossed

And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.


Jack Kerouac


#moon #nature #nature

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.


Franz Kafka


#first-sentence #insects #transformation #dreams

This wobbly world host to insects and lint and a thousand pithy ways to feel unserious each minute It brings about a great softening of the mind, like the clouded edges of sea glass (this filter you could download and apply) A poultice or an opiate, rigidly individual. Alone and erasing sentences to splinters. (Poem No. 5)


Erin J. Watson


#life #mind #poems #poetry #world

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.


Kevin J. Anderson


#build #had #insects #like #look

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.


Holly Valance


#everything #i #i see #insects #karma

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.


E. O. Wilson


#disappear #few #humanity #insects #land

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.


E. O. Wilson


#cemetery #dominant #insects #make #make up

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.


Walter Mosley


#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings