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"Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud."
"The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud."
"If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing quality of a morning in May, and a good description of May sets up the possibility of a May disaster."
"But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity."
"Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?"
"All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!"
"There buds the promise of celestial worth."
"There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig"
"But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve."
"And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes."
"Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all."
"What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds."
"The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds."
"Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less."
"Still more labyrinthine buds the rose."
"A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice."
"Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone."
