Flowers

Famous quotes containing the word flowers:

    Death quarrels, and shakes the tree,
    And fears are flowers, and flowers are generation,
    And the founding, foundering, beast-instructed mansion
    Of love called into being by this same death
    Hangs everywhere its light.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow,
    Came that “Ave atque Vale” of the poet’s hopeless woe,
    Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago,
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    At least I have the flowers of myself,
    and my thoughts, no god
    can take that;
    I have the fervour of myself for a presence
    and my own spirit for light....
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)