Born Quote by Dante Alighieri

I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure.

— Yosa Buson

“And her heart sprang in Iseult, and she drew With all her spirit and life the sunrise through And through her lips the keen…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my…

— Anne Rice

As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a…

— Robert Southwell

“Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give…

— Paulo Coelho

Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns: That I…

— Christina Rossetti

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the…

— Janet Fitch

“I dreamed I stood upon a little hill, And at my feet there lay a ground, that seemed Like a waste garden, flowering at…

— Lord Alfred Douglas

Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching.

— Rumi

“The flower that smiles today Tomorrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies; What is this world's delight? Lightning, that…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of…

— Emily Bronte

The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset…

— John Ashbery