Flowering Cherry Trees

Famous quotes containing the words flowering, cherry and/or trees:

    “Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon,
    How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
    How can ye chant, ye little birds,
    And I sae weary fu’ o’ care?
    Thou’lt break my heart, thou warbling bird,
    That wantons thro’ the flowering thorn:
    Thou minds me o’ departed joys,
    Departed never to return.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “I think it was your cherry pies.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “an endless wind
    Whips at the headstones of the dead and wails
    In the trees for all who have and have not sinned.”
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)