Flowers

Famous quotes containing the word flowers:

    “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)

    “Spirit of her I love,
    Whispering to me,
    Stories of sweet visions, as I rove,
    Here stop, and crop with me
    Sweet flowers that in the still hour grew,”
    —John Clare (1793–1864)

    “Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border;
    The English, for ance, by guile won the day:
    The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost,
    The prime o’ our land, are cauld in the clay.”
    —Jean Elliot (1727–1805)