Air Quote by Henry Abbey

I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-,…

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow,…

— William Butler Yeats

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against…

— Hafez

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the…

— James A. Garfield

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented…

— Thomas More

“For the grace of the presence, be grateful. Touch the cloth of the robe, but do not pull it toward you, or like an…

— Jalaluddin Rumi

“Translating this to the spiritual regions as their wont is, the poets sang beautifully how roses fade and petals fall. The moment is brief…

— Virginia Woolf

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.

— Chief Dan George

“Roses, wild roses, everywhere! So plentiful were they, they were not only perfumed the air, they seemed to dye it a faint rose-hue. The…

— George MacDonald

“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or…

— Vladimir Nabokov