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Flower Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday…
- Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun…
- Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.…
- but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to…
- They set up a noise like crickets, A chattering wise and sweet, And her hair was a folded flower And the quiet of love in…
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- True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
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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
- A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac
- Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. — Franklin P. Adams
- These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey
- I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child. — Drew Barrymore
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore