Easter Quote by Edward Thomas

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

— Sophocles

“And there, with their gables lifting into the sunlight above deep hedgerows beautiful with spring. He saw the cottages of earthly men. Past them…

— Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany

Beware of men bearing flowers.

— Muriel Spark

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end,…

— Isaac Watts

“Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or streeet, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it…

— Henry David Thoreau

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

All the wild sweetness of the flower Tangled against the wall. It was that magic, silent hour.... The branches grew so tall They twined…

— Katherine Mansfield

Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its…

— William Morris

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

— Yosa Buson

“Flowers need plenty of water and sunshine to grow. Love, too, needs attention and affection, or else it slowly withers away from neglect. Once…

— Kerri Maniscalco

“The Eliots found it a queer sort of evening - a transition evening. Hitherto the Herb of Grace had been to them a summer…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“In the moonlight David saw that Thoresby had become very peculiar indeed. Figs nestled among the leaves of beech-trees. Elder-trees were bowed down with…

— Susanna Clarke