Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“it takes a village to build success in publishing a book - it takes friends that are willing to help - it… — Rich Okun Copy Share Image
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of… — John Bowring Copy Share Image
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
I came to the United States in 1981 as a student.When I left, I was totally the most beloved little flower in… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
