FLOWERS QUOTES
quotations about flowers
Flowers are the music of the ground
From earth's lips spoken without sound.
EDWIN CURRAN
"Flowers"
Those of you who cultivate the flowers, are like the flowers, and help make this city a city of flowers.
TANJA BOSKOVIC
opening remarks, 44th Flower Exhibition in Herceg Novi, March 4, 2019
The flowers burned on their stalks like yellow tongues of flame.
DOROTHY CANFIELD
"Flint and Fire", The Bedquilt and Other Stories
Out of the earth came whole troops of flowers, like motley stars.
FELIX SALTEN
Bambi
Earth laughs in flowers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Hamatreya"
O prophet flowers! with lips of bloom,
Surpassing, in their beauty,
The pearly tints of ocean shells--
Ye teach me faith and duty.
ALBERT LAIGHTON
"Under the Leaves"
The canker worm is at work within
The fairest of her flowers.
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY
Oh This World of Ours
What ornament can deck the head of youth like a simple flower, or what add lustre to the bloom of maidenhood if the camellia or the rosebud will not.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Flowers", Short Essays
Flowers rejoice when night is done,
Lift their heads to greet the sun;
Sweetest looks and odours raise,
In a silent hymn of praise.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"Matins"
God hath made three beautiful things,
Birds, and women, and flowers;
And he on earth who happy would be
Must look with love on all the three;
But chiefly, in bright summer hours,
He is wise who loves the flowers,
And roams the fields with me.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
"The Botanist's Song", Musa Burschicosa: A Book of Songs for Students and University Men
Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing
Mount to those luminous serene fields!
The man whose thoughts, like larks,
Take liberated flight toward the morning skies
--Who hovers over life and understands without effort
The language of flowers and voiceless things!
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
"Elevation"
Did you ever consider the difference between a real flower and a wax imitation? The latter may be quite as beautiful. It may deceive you at first. And yet when you discover the deception you are disappointed. "The lack of fragrance," Jennie suggests. No! the flower may be odorless. It is the lack of life. I do not know what there is in that mystic life that should make such a difference. But I am sure that the charm of the flower is in its life.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Laicus: Or
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
I love to smell flowers in the dark ... You get hold of their soul then.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
Anne's House of Dreams
O flowers! the soul that faints or grieves
New comfort from your lips receives;
Sweet confidence and patient faith are hidden in your leaves.
ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN
"Spring at the Capital"
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Naval Treaty
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
How I wished that I could come back as a flower
To spread the sweetness of love
STEVIE WONDER
"Come Back as a Flower"
Open afresh your round of starry folds,
Ye ardent marigolds!
JOHN KEATS
"I Stood Tiptoe"
In the old country my mother planted flowers
in the face of my father's disdain.
In every garden,
in every house,
no matter how long
we lived there.
I think it was the war,
the Blitz in England, that took all the flowers.
I think it was for the love she couldn't show him.
I think it was for me.
To show me that only the unspeakable remains.
CHRIS ABANI
Sanctificum