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“An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment with its…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He spoke again: “The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“A rose for all its beauty still has a thorn”

— Ken Maxon

“The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering…

— Charles Dickens

“That was how the little prince tamed the fox. And when the time was near: "Ah!" the fox said. "I shall weep." "It's your…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“until the heart bursts and there is nothing left but a blinding, scorching light, the radiant light that carries off the fecundated seeds of…

— Henry Miller

“Years ago, when she'd studied the constructions of stem, blade, stamen, ovule, she loved the infinite possibilities of the plant kingdom- but she had…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Aim for the stars without forgetting the flowers below.”

— Zechariah Angus McDougall

“[art] those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that…

— Donna Tartt

“She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted.…

— F.R. Tallis