“She raised her chin and looked him in the eye. “You see a river rushing by without end. You see a sad… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“The roses bloomed, thousands of them in a floral amphitheater, blossoms shading from gold and coral at the top of the garden… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow, at dawn, the moment the countryside is washed with daylight, I will leave. You see, I know that you wait for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Ye winds ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye played a few brief hours ago; Ye bore the murmuring bee; ye… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At first she felt overwhelmed by the house, its airy symmetry its silence. Now she was accustomed to the place, but she… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“We let him sag to the paving beside the pool’s edge. Can we really do it? Who will do it? Which of… — Eve Chase Copy Share Image
“Learn to radiate joy, not stingily, not meanly, but generously. Fling out your gladness without reserve. Shed it in the home, on… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed… — Lana Turner Copy Share Image
“ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled Above the tide of hours, trouble… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Flowers. Lots of women say they don’t want them. But every woman is happy when they get them. Which is why I’ve… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Years passed with nothing to show in a land once so enchanted that bees and butterflies slept safe in the blossoms after… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
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My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With the first jolt he was in daylight; they had left the gateways of King’s Cross, and were under blue sky. Tunnels… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“The sky slides into blue, the bluffs into bloom; the rapid Mississippi expands; runs sparkling and gurgling, all over in eddies; one… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“THE LILIES This morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reeling. People passed… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue Royale, and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew… — Lucian Blaga Copy Share Image
... the fact that the idea don't come freshly on us makes it necessary for it to be better in order to… — Susan Hale Copy Share Image
I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I wondered if this longing in a three-year-old had sparked what came at eight. That fuzzy feeling of difference, that her crushes… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“A daffodil bulb will divide and redivide endlessly. That's why, like the peony, it is one of the few flowers you can… — Cassandra Danz Copy Share Image
She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature,… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy.… — Desiree Rogers Copy Share Image
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
“A Mixed-breed Apple" A little mixed-breed apple, half red, half yellow, tells this story. A lover and beloved get separated. Their being… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Beyond these the flowers were more frequent, but paler, less glossy, more thickly seeded, more tightly folded, and disposed, by accident, in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
“What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
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