Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

— William Wordsworth

“Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends.”

— Julie Andrews Edwards

It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter…

— Gregory Maguire

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Today, while Mother was watching me work, she suddenly remarked, “They say that people who like summer flowers die in the summer. I wonder…

— Osamu Dazai

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“And I think of the night-blooming cereus, a plant that looks like a leathery weed most of the year. But for one night each…

— Alan Lightman

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching…

— Dante Alighieri

“Alice stopped walking as a dragonfly hovered close. 'Yellow-winged darter.' The name came to mind of its own accord. She watched as the insect…

— Kate Morton

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

— William Shakespeare

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Do I look like a shallow Summer girl to you?' She tossed her silver hair, offended. 'I’m a Winter Court royal. I kill silly…

— Vicki Keire

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first…

— John Ruskin

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

— James Joyce