Pink Flower Petals

Famous quotes containing the words pink, flower and/or petals:

    “It was at the time, the place, of nougats.
    There the dogwoods, the white ones and the pink ones,
    Bloomed in sheets, as they bloom, and the girl,
    A pink girl took a white dog walking.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “And I weep;
    For the lime-tree is in blossom
    And one small flower has dropped upon my bosom.”
    —Amy Lowell (1874–1925)

    “the petals creak and
    begin to rise.
    They rise and recurl
    to a bud’s form
    and clamp shut.
    I wait in the dark.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)