Engraving Quotes, Sayings and Poems About Flowers
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Poetic Quotes & Verses About Flowers & Roses"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December."-- J. M. Barrie "Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time." -- Edmund Spenser "The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears." -- Sir Walter Scott "Earth laughs in flowers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock." -- Henry Ward Beecher "I owe perhaps becoming a painter to flowers." -- Claude Monet "If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul." -- The Koran "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into." -- Henry Beecher "Earth laughs in flowers." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." -- Emma Goldman "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." -- Iris Murdoch "A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." -- Walt Whitman "Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat." -- Beverly Nichols "The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks." -- Tennessee Williams "Perfumes are the feelings of flowers." -- Heinrich Heine "Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." -- John Ruskin "When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." -- Chinese Proverb "If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom." -- Audra Foveo "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." -- Jean Giraudoux "If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn." -- Andrew Mason "I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay "Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms." -- Ikkyu Sojun "If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom." -- Terri Guillemets "Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed." -- Walt Whitman "The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size." -- Gertrude S. Wister |








