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Flower Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
- Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.
- Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick…
- I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves…
- But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still…
- April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
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- Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. — Franklin P. Adams
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