Lilac Quotes

33 quotes by 27 authors

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,… — Truman Capote
In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed… — Walt Whitman
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning… — Paul Robeson
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to… — Nina Simone
The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love… — E. Nesbit
A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac. — Laura Miller
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and… — Victor Hugo
There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour.… — Hans Heysen
Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few… — Angus Wilson
He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone… — Sylvester Stallone
in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking… — E E Cummings
Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill… — Michael Ende
Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch… — Alice Hoffman
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on… — Czeslaw Milosz
A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It… — Amy Lowell
my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp… — E E Cummings

Who Wrote These Lilac Quotes

27 authors contributed a total of 33 Lilac Quotes, led by these top contributors: