Once fallen, the blossom doesn't return to the branch

“A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought -- But no, a butterfly.”

— Arakida Moritake

“This is BLOSSOM!”

— Katherine Brickley

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

— William Shakespeare

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

— Carl Sandburg

I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.

— Gia Coppola

“Autumn had arrived— the last blossom whispered, let me stay awhile.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

— Allen Lacy

“ A Blessing Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those two Indian…

— James Wright

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed…

— William Butler Yeats

We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true…

— Daniel Abraham

The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the…

— Aeschylus

One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the…

— Anonymous

“Like wind and fire, water and soil, we used one another, to grow and blossom. Love was a dream, elusive as were we.”

— Iva Hotko

I'm sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get…

— Jennifer Grant

My first concert ever was my freshman year of high school, at Blossom, and it was Lil Wayne and Young Money. It was wild.

— Larry Nance, Jr