Flowers

Famous quotes containing the word flowers:

    “The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
    Unpitying frosts, and Autumn’s power
    Shall leave no vestige of this flower.”
    —Philip Freneau (1752–1832)

    “Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
    Is a world of sweets and sours;
    Our flowers are merely—flowers,
    And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
    Is the sunshine of ours.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “I believe there were no flowers then,
    In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of creation.
    I believe he pierced the slow vegetable veins with his long beak.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)