#flower

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. ↗

— Christopher Smart

#flowers #peculiarly #poetry #reasoning #sound

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up. ↗

— Ken Hill

#dry #flowers #like #minds #sit

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#fairest #flower #manure #nature #roots

I like perfume and flowers. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#flowers #i #like #perfume

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ↗

— Matsuo Basho

#coming #flowers #hear #i #out

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#lowly #shy #smells #sweetest

Flowers are happy things. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#happy #happy things #things

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#in-his-arms #the-age-of-innocence #age

Love smells like a flower in bloom. A flower that's sitting on a pile of steaming feces. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #age

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims... ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#flowers #midnight #beauty