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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br...

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I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river f...

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A man should smell of sweat, not flowers.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem o...

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Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes ti...

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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Vase[Why weep Come back tomorrow There are also poisonous flowers and flowers always open in the eve...

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Guillaume ApollinaireCalligrammes: Poems of Peace and War

When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white fro...

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My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric k...

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If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butter...

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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds...

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I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And pa...

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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of ye...

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There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

And, indeed it is a very pleasant thing for to ride forth in the dawning of a Springtime day. For th...

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Howard PyleThe Story of King Arthur and His Knights

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such...

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Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, ...

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who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I e...

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ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made ...

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It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If y...

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The moon looks upon many night flowers the night flowers see but one moon.

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were bu...

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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, i...

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Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, "To c...

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If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted the...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms...

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John KeatsThe Complete Poems

I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces,And the gold cup...

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In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place and in th...

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Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them ...

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A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, ...

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You have only to say one word and I would know your voice among all other voices. I don't know what ...

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The pageant of the river bank had marched steadily along, unfolding itself in scene-pictures that su...

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Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious ...

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How is it you can talk so nicely?' Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always a...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with beha...

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... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.

... the cattleyas especially (these being, with chrysanthemums, her favourite flowers), because they...

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Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.

Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy’s t...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and s...

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This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting readyto break my heartas the sun rises, as t...

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Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?

How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....

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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa...

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That's oak leaf, for bravery. I've got Veronica and Honeysuckle, for fidelity and affection. And tha...

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Neil GaimanFree Country: A Tale of The Children's Crusade

It must be a real betrayal, when your body turns against you. I wonder if she likes flowers. All the...

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I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled That every Hyac...

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But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Ar...

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Bosie has insisted on stopping here for sandwiches. He is quite like a narcissus -- so white and gol...

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowe...

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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening ...

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His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity wa...

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray o...

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray o...

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every...

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And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio sayin...

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Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

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Robert A. HeinleinThe Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Any noseMay ravage with impunity a rose.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of t...

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Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to star...

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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will al...

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This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will bl...

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The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain r...

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I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like t...

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I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaces...

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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a n...

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From golden showers of the ancient skies,On the first day, and the eternal snow of stars,You once un...

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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

The GeraniumWhen I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,She looked so limp and bedraggled,So fooli...

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To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers t...

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