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"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass."
"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
"If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act."
"Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others."
"I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes."
"... the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven."
"We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls."
"I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone."
"Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers."
"Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing."
"Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste."
"Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower."
"Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed."
"Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him."
"God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands."
"Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning."
"Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering."
"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."
"I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges."
"Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up."
