Flowers are the Poetry of Earth...

"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers." ~Basho

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

"How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor!" ~Colette

"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring." ~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams

Pluck not the wayside flower;

It is the traveler's dower.

~William Allingham

 

"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

"A weed is but an unloved flower." ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems." ~Rainer Maria Rilke