Color Quote by Vita Sackville-West

“From the Garden” Come, my beloved, consider the lilies. We are of little faith. We talk too much. Put your mouthful of words away…

— Anne Sexton

Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being…

— John de Ruiter

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to…

— Michael Pollan

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is…

— Brian Eno

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

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

— Jean Cocteau

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is…

— Alice Oswald

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

— Octavio Paz

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

— George Crabbe

Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody…

— Ketzel Levine

For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural…

— Philip Gambone