Born Quote by Celia Thaxter

Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to…

— Celia Thaxter

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

Flowers are born, and they wither...

— Shaka

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Jonson

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

— Jean Cocteau

“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

No one is born the perfect flower. You have to give yourself time to bloom.

— Anonymous

“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.”

— E. Millicent Sowerby

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

— H. E. Bates

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman