Irises quotes

Irises

19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

19 quotes
Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac Novelist

"Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons."

Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury Author

"The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him."

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