1056 – "I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."

-John Keats to Fanny Brawne

220 – “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever.”

–Carl Sagan

213 – “When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”

–Dean Jackson