I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
I must have flowers, always, and always.
A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And what might our ancient attraction for flowers have to teach us about the deeper mysteries of beauty - what one poet has called
The flowers in the mountains have broken through the rocks
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us
since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid
I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.
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