Plum Blossoms

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

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

    “Some bring a capon, some a rural cake,
    Some nuts, some apples; some that think they make
    The better cheeses bring ‘em, or else send
    By their ripe daughters, whom they would commend
    This way to husbands, and whose baskets bear
    An emblem of themselves in plum or pear.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “Your thighs are appletrees
    whose blossoms touch the sky.
    Which sky? The sky
    where Watteau hung a lady’s
    slipper.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)