Gentian Quotes
- Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker… — D. H. Lawrence
- When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if… — Frieda Lawrence
- And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. — William C. Bryant
- A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight. — Kay Ryan