Best Blossom Wisdom
311 Blossom quotes by 237 unique authors
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A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or…
— Toni Morrison
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
— Marcel Proust
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What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of…
— James Wright
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Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us:…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I would blossom if I were a rose.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.
— James Wright
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
— Matsuo Basho
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Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out.…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in…
— John O'Donohue
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The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender…
— Tana French
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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
— Tamora Pierce
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Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others…
— Kent Nerburn
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Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!
— William Shakespeare
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O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!
— William Shakespeare
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She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers…
— Neil Gaiman
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Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made…
— Nelson Mandela
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You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?
— James Clavell
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And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds…
— Khalil Gibran
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Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said…
— Susan Cooper
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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 Lake…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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