“Between the flowers you went. Between the flowers I remain.”
— Miguel Hernández, trans. A.S.Kline, excerpt from “The Sun, the Rose, and the Child”
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“My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her;—out of a sullen hollow in a livid hill-side, her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was—liberty. Liberty was the breath of Emily’s nostrils; without it she perished.”
— Charlotte Brontë on Emily Brontë, quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
Her eyes are swirling with
classic poetries
the scent of dried roses at
midnight
the taste of fairytales
from an old book;
spilling magic from her
rosé wine lips.
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The flowers were dressed in nothing but light.
Mary Oliver, from Devotions: The Selected Poems; “Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer,”
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Out of the forest I come with my flowers, singing, all alone.
Carol Ann Duffy, from The World’s Wife: Poems; “Little Red Cap,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
—
Jorge Luis Borges
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“I love flowers, I’d love to have the whole place swimming in roses.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
“I can be perfectly happy by myself. With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?”
— De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
, Oscar Wilde
I could. Cus i deserve someone who makes me totally happy
A garden of fragrant flowers will be a garden of bees and butterflies. The bees will forage amount the blue-flowered herbs and red wallflowers, attracted to color, while the butterflies will be drawn by the fragrance of the pale blossoms of pinks and lavender.
— English Cottage Gardens, Ethan Clarke & Clay Perry, 1985
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