Famous quotes containing the words flower and/or fly:
“Love is a barren sea, bitter and deep;
And though she saw all heaven in flower above,
She would not love.”
—A.C. (Algernon Charles)
“The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–67)