Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

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

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

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

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

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a mafioso…

— Sylvester Stallone

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower,…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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