Flower
Quotes
Pretty
flowers make such beautiful subjects for quotes. The sweet imagery and
descriptive writings about flowers make them such a joy to read. Almost
as much joy as beholding a real flower - well, nearly!
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"The flower is the poetry of
reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness
of life." ~Jean Giraudoux
"Flowers seem
intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." ~John Ruskin |
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more
than the metaphysics of books."
~Walt Whitman
"Give
me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk
undisturbed."
~Walt Whitman |
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| "Break open a cherry tree and there are no
flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."
~Ikkyu Sojun |
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"A
profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain
speaks to
me of all gentleness and its enduring."
~ William
Carlos Williams |
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| "The flowers of late winter and early spring
occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their
size." ~ Gertrude S. Wister |
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"I
perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
~
Claude Monet |
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"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made,
and
forgot to put a soul into."
~ Henry Beecher,
Life
Thoughts, 1858 |
"Flowers...
are a
proud assertion that a
ray of beauty outvalues
all
the utilities of the world."
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson, 1844 |
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