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“'Bee vomit,' my brother said once, 'that's all honey is,' so that I could not put my tongue to its jellied flame without tasting regurgitated blossoms.”
Rita Dove, ‘In the Old Neighborhood’

 

“The pedigree of Honey does not concern the Bee - A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy.”
Emily Dickinson, American poet (1830-1886)

 

“The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ‘Poor Richard's Almanac’

 

"There was an old person so silly,
He poked his head into a lily;
But six bees who lived there,
     filled him full of despair,
For they stung that old person so silly."
Edward Lear, English artist, writer; known for his 'literary nonsense' & limericks  (1812-1888)

 

“As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.”
Sir Thomas More