Plum Blossoms

Famous quotes containing the words plum blossoms, plum and/or blossoms:

    “bees
    dig the plum blossoms”
    —Charles Olson (1910–1970)

    “Don’t tie your shoes in a melon patch, and don’t adjust your hat under a plum tree.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “So the soul, that drop, that ray
    Of the clear fountain of eternal day,
    Could it within the human flower be seen,
    Remembering still its former height,
    Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green;
    And, recollecting its own light,
    Does, in its pure and circling thoughts, express
    The greater heaven in an heaven less.”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)