Let us open our leaves like a flower,
and be passive and receptive.
- John Keats
In the hope of reaching
the moon
that blossom at their feet.
- Albert Schweitzer
I didn't know the names
of the flowers
now my garden is gone.
- Allen Ginsberg
Roses red and violets
blew, And all the sweetest flowers
that in the forest grew.
- Edmund Spenser
And I will make thee
beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.
- Christopher Marlowe
Oh, my luve’s like a
red, red rose,
That ’s newly sprung in June,
Oh, my luve’s like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
- Robert Burns
It will never rain
roses.
When we want to have more roses,
we must plant more roses.
- George Eliot
One of the most
attractive things about
the flowers is their
beautiful reserve.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you have only two
pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of
bread with one, and a lily with the other.
- Chinese Proverb
I didn't know the names
of the flowers
now my garden is gone.
- Allen Ginsberg
We gathered the
wild-flowers.
Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.
As thro' the field we rov'd.
Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.
- George Linley
flowers
are love's truest language.
- Park Benjamin
If of thy mortal goods
thou art bereft,
And of thy meager store
Two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
- Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi
Lone and erect, beneath
light's primal flood,
A lily! and pure as any one
of you.
- Mallarme
Their lips were four
red roses on a stalk.
- William Shakespeare
Life is the
flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Different
flowers look good to different
people
Pick the flower when it is
ready to be picked.
The flower that you spent
time to care for does not grow
while the willow that your accidentally
planted flourishes and gives shade.
- Chinese Proverbs
flowers
have an expression of countenance as much as
men or animals. Some seem to smile, some
have a sad expression, some are pensive and
diffident, others again are plain, honest
and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower
and the hollyhock.
- Henry Ward Beecher
flowers
are the sweetest things that God ever made
and forgot to put a soul into.
-Henry Ward Beckford
flowers
are as common in the country as people are
in London.
- Oscar Wilde
Each flower
is a soul opening out to nature.
- Gerard De Nerval
Simply trust,
Do not the petals flutter down,
Just like this?
- Issa
Perfumes are the
feelings of flowers.
- Heinrich Heine
You love the
roses - so do I.
I wish the sky would rain down roses,
as they rain from off the shaken bush.
Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
and soft to tread on.
They would fall as light as feathers,
smelling sweet, and it would be like
sleeping and like waking, all at once!
- George Eliot
The red rose
whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes
of love,
O, the red rose is a
falcon,
And the white rose is a
dove.
- John Boyle O’Reilly
I have a garden of my
own,
But so with roses
overgrown,
And lilies,
that you would it guess to be a little
wilderness.
- Andrew Marvell
Every rose
has its thorn: You never find a woman
without pins and needles.
- Douglas Jerrold
Can we conceive what
humanity would be if it did not know the
flowers?
- Maurice Maeterlinck
With a few
flowers in my garden, half a dozen
pictures and some books, I live without
envy.
- Lope de Vega
God loved the
flowers and invented soil. Man
loved the flowers and
invented vases.
- Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval
There is that in the
glance of a flower which
may at times control the greatest of
creation's braggart lords.
- John Muir
Deep in their root, all
flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke
I wandered lonely as a
cloud
That floats on high over vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay,
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
- William Wordsworth
In the 1600's, a
language of flowers
developed in Constantinople and in the
poetry of Persia.
Charles II introduced the Persian poetry to
Europe, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
brought the flower language
from Turkey to England in 1716.
It spread to France and became a handbook of
800 floral messages known as the Book Le
Language des Fleurs.
Lovers exchanged messages as they gave each
other selected flowers or
bouquets. A full red rose
meant beauty. Red and white mean unity.
Crocus said "abuse not", while a white
rosebud warns that one is
too young for love.
Yellow roses were for
jealousy, yellow iris for passion, filbert
for reconciliation and ivy for marriage.
- Valentine's Day Love Traditions
Often the prickly thorn
produces tender roses
- Ovid
Since Iris is the Greek
goddess for the Messenger of Love, her
sacred flower is considered
the symbol of communication and messages.
Greek men would often plant an iris on the
graves of their beloved women as a tribute
to the goddess Iris, whose duty it was to
take the souls of women to the Elysian
fields.
- Hana No Monogatari
flowers
are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow
and flowers have no
tomorrow.
- Antonio Porchia
You love the
roses - so do I.
I wish the sky would rain down roses,
as they rain from off the shaken bush.
Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
and soft to tread on.
They would fall as light as feathers,
smelling sweet, and it would be like
sleeping and like waking, all at once!
- George Eliot
God gave us our
memories so that we might have roses
in December.
- J. M. Barrie
Stop to smell the
roses
- Thom Bodebt
flowers
are love's truest language.
- Park Benjamin
In joy or sadness,
flowers are our constant
friends.
- Kozuko Okakura
One of the most
attractive things about
the flowers is their
beautiful reserve.
- Henry David Thoreau
In my garden there is a
large place for sentiment.
My garden of flowers is
also my garden of thoughts and dreams.
The thoughts grow as freely as the
flowers, and the dreams are as
beautiful.
- Abram L. Urban
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