Buttons Quote by Marge Piercy

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an…

— Jean Paul

“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the…

— Virginia Woolf

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

— Peter S. Beagle

We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.

— Marisa Silver

That was like seeing a dodo and a unicorn all wrapped up in one

— Rachel Maddow

“There is a bench in the back of my garden shaded by Virginia creeper, climbing roses, and a white pine where I sit early…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“Plume" Transfixed to the, by the, on the congruities, who is herself a vanishing point coming to closure — dusky flutter — trilling away…

— Aaron Shurin

Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form excel. In…

— William Cowper

With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy…

— Reginald Heber

What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer…

— James Russell Lowell

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching…

— Dante Alighieri

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to…

— Helen Keller