Language Quote by Rabisankar Bal

“Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.”

— Anonymous

“Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”

— J.D. Salinger

“After the dead words, after the ones still said and spoken, what do you expect? Some flying leaves, more scattered papers. Who knows? Some…

— Vicente Aleixandre

“he thinks that flowers are hauntingly delicate like a sigh of nobody in the dark.”

— Clarice Lispector

“Like a beautifully brightly colored flower without fragrance, is the well-spoken word without action.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“The words fall out of my mouth like rain- I felt them coming, smelled them in the air, but there was nothing I could…

— Ashley Herring Blake

“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way- things I had no words for.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“She’s a manner of speaking. Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves. There are new flowers, new green leaves. There are…

— Alberto Caeiro

“Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?”

— Allen Ginsberg

“And suddenly it smelled like someone forgot to turn on the gravity. The air was so fresh and light you could practically float on…

— Jennifer Gooch Hummer

“Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?”

— Margaret Atwood

“I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.”

— D.H. Lawrence