"Lone and erect, beneath light's primal flood,
A lily! and pure as any one of you."
~ Mallarme
"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!"
~ William Wordsworth
"Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798
"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." ~John Ruskin
"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
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." ~ Jean Giraudoux
"Flowers really do intoxicate me." ~ Vita Sackville-West
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." ~ The Koran
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~ Claude Monet
"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?" ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
"God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases." ~ Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval
"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat." ~Beverly Nichols
