Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Flower Quotes

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

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I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

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Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

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As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

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Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Saws Quotes

Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.

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Can you look at a flower without thinking?

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Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.

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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Flower Quotes , Sight Quotes

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

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