Gardening Quote by Marianne Moore

“...when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"…

— Marianne Moore

“We should be happy to see toads in our gardens.”

— Andrienne Soutter-Perrot

“A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education--noisy-throated frogs, katydids and crickets held in my…

— Helen Keller

“The fruit of the garden is not restricted to what we eat. Every garden lends something more to the imagination - beauty.”

— Vigen Guroian

“There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”

— Clare Ansberry

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It is not only me devoted to your kindness and beauty; walk in the gardens, you will find birds singing your name.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Picture her then: Daphne Manners, a big girl (to borrow a none too definite image from Lady Chatterjee) leaning on the balcony outside her…

— Paul Scott

“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.”

— W. H. Auden

“I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.”

— Melody Lee