"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
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures
and some books, I live without envy."
~ Lope de Vega
"Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root
and all in all, I should know what God and man is."
~ Tennyson
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction.
It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
~ Jean Giraudoux
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it,
it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to
someone else. Most people in the city rush around so,
they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see
it whether they want to or not."
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."
~ Beverly Nichols
"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges
of your soul by a flower in spring bloom,
maybe your soul has never been in bloom."
~ Audra Foveo
" 'Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!"
~ William Wordsworth
"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." ~ John Ruskin
"Flowers really do intoxicate me." ~ Vita Sackville-West
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..." ~ Susan Polis Shutz
18-AUG-2007
"...And lilies white, prepared to touch The whitest thought,
nor soil it much, Of dreamer turned to lover..."
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
18-AUG-2007
"Gracious as sunshine,
sweet as dew...
Shut in a lily's golden core."
~ Margaret J. Preston
18-AUG-2007
"But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white?
By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!"
~ Bayard Taylor
18-AUG-2007
"Where flowers bloom so does hope."
~ Lady Bird Johnson, 'Public Roads: Where Flowers Bloom'
