Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at…

“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

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“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

'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!

— William Wordsworth

“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