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Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
-Danish proverb
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Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.
-Proverb
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To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
-William Blake
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Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room;
And in my flower-beds, I think,
Smile the carnation and the pink...
-Rupert Brooke
The Old Vicarage, Granchester
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Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
-Luther Burbank
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
-Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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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 decipher even fragments of their meaning.
-Lydia Maria Child
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Earth laughs in flowers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied blossoms blow,
Unseen thy little branches greet;
...No roving foot shall crush thee here,
...No busy hand provoke a tear.
By Nature's self in white arrayed,
She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,
And planted here the gaurdian shade,
And sent soft waters murmuring by;
...Thus quietly thy summer goes,
...Thy days declinging to repose.
Smit with those charms, that must decay,
I grieve to see your future doom;
They died--nor were those flowers more gay,
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power
...Shall leave no vestige of this flower.
From morning suns and evenign dews
At first thy little being came:
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
...The space between, is but an hour,
...The frail duration of a flower.
-Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey-Suckle
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
-Sigmund Freud
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The lotus flower is troubled
At the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She dreamily waits for the night.
-Heinrich Heine
Book of Songs--Lyrical Interlude (no. 10)
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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Teach me, Father, how to go
Softly as the grasses grow;
Hush my soul to meet the shock
Of the wild world as a rock;
But my spirit, propt with power,
Make as simple as a flower.
Let the dry heart fill its cup,
Like a poppy looking up;
Let life lightly wear her crown,
Like a poppy looking down,
When its heart is filled with dew,
And its life begins anew.
-Edwin Markham
A Prayer
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'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
-Thomas Moore
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Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
-Gerard De Nerval
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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
-Georgia O'Keeffe
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I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
-Georgia O'Keeffe
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Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
-Thomas De Quincey
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Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.
-Edgar Quinet
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
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Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
-Theodore Roethke
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Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now.
-Arabella Smith
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We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
-R. Southwell
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Books about Flowers
