Flowers

Famous quotes containing the word flowers:

    “Only the white, tremendous foam of the street has any importance,
    The new white flowers that are beginning to shoot up about now.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “And like a prophetess of May
    Strew’d flowers upon the barren way,
    Making the wintry world appear
    Like one on whom thou smilest, dear.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Unmeasured power, incredible passion, enormous craft: no thought
    apparent but burns darkly
    Smothered with its own smoke in the human brain-vault: no thought
    outside; a certain measure in phenomena:
    The fountains of the boiling stars, the flowers on the foreland, the
    ever-returning roses of dawn.”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)