FLOWERS QUOTES III
quotations about flowers
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Letters from New York
Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
JOHN KEATS
"Faery Songs"
Flowers are like the old-fashioned girls we see outside saloons, splashing on more perfume to lure the passer-by in.
DAMIEN ENRIGHT
"Wily wasps as vital to species' survival as busy bees", Irish Examiner, June 9, 2019
I try to think of a favorite among my arid-country flowers. But I love them all. How could we be true to one without being false to all the others?
EDWARD ABBEY
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Wives and Daughters
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Star Papers
I hate flowers -- I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
New York Herald Tribune, Apr. 18, 1954
I'd go without food if I could have a flower.
CARYL CHURCHILL
A Dream Play
La la la la la the lovely Linda
With the lovely flowers in her hair
PAUL MCCARTNEY
"The Lovely Linda"
Many people have never learned to see the beauty of flowers, especially those that grow unnoticed. For instance, when you walk outside and look down at your feet, you may see tiny flowers nestled in the moss and clover hiding under a curled fern. Most people just step on them. I paint them.
ERIKA JUST
Flowers
Flowers are the gems that give color to the poetry of nature, and to cultivate a taste for them helps to beautify our minds.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Flowers", Short Essays
The flower fades that is not looked upon.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Variations of flowers are like variations in music, often beautiful as such, but almost always inferior to the theme on which they are founded--the original air.
LEIGH HUNT
"A Flower for Your Window", Essays
What this old world needs is more bouquets handed around to folks when they are alive and kicking. Flowers don't do a dead one much good.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
EDWARD ABBEY
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", Desert Solitaire