Lilies Quotes - Page 5

• Soon the purple dark must bruise
  Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
  And the little Cupid lose
  Eyes and ears and chin and nose

  Donald Justice

  Heart, Eye, Dark

  Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.40, Knopf

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• Where did Gabriel get a lily,
  In the month of March,
  When the green
  Is hardly seen
  On the early larch?

  Grace James

  Spring, Gabriel, Green

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• Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Musical, Mouths, Instruments

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• Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

  Anna Quindlen

  Happiness, Baby, Passion

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

  Ovid

  White, Rose, Erotic

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• I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Rain, Kissing

  Song: Recitation

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• As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Men, Marching On, Holy

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• If you purify the pond, the lilies die

  William Stafford

  Ponds, Dies, Ifs

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• I know a little garden close
  Set thick with lily and red rose,
  Where I would wander if I might
  From dewy dawn to dewy night.
  And have one with me wandering.

  William Morris

  Flower, Night, Garden

  William Morris (1872). “The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem”, p.85

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• Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Children, Clouds, Remember You

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• Mary is the lily in God's garden.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Garden, Mary

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• Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

  Anne Sexton

  Nurse, Watches, Growing

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.

  Lew Wallace

  Beautiful, Children, Hands

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• I need dating advice. Fast.” Ash arched a single brow at that. “I’m useless. I’ve never been on one.” The three human men turned to gape at him. “What?” Ash asked them defensively. Nick started laughing. “Oh man, this is priceless. Don’t tell me the great Acheron is a virgin?” Ash gave him a droll look. “Yeah, Nick. I’m lily-white.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, White, Laughing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.117, Macmillan

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• You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here because I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest, pressing her palm flat against his rapidly thumping pulse. "I'm obligated by my heart. It's decided you're essential to my existence, you see. And it's threatening to go out on labor strike if I don't make you mine this very day. So yes. I am here on bended knee, acting from a deep, undeniable sense of obligation. I am, quite simply, yours." He swallowed hard. "If you'll have me.

  Tessa Dare

  Sorry, Heart, Hands

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• For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

  Christopher Smart

  Flower, Angel, Blessing

  Christopher Smart, “Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3”

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• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Chrysanthemums, Made

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 140, 1982.

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• From the tiny birds of the air and from the fragile lilies of the field, we learn the same truth, which is so important for those who desire to live a life of simple faith: God takes care of His own. He knows our needs. He anticipates our crises. He is moved by our weaknesses. He stands ready to come to our rescue. And at just the right moment, He steps in and proves Himself as our faithful heavenly Father.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Father, Simple, Air

  Charles R. Swindoll (1999). “Grace Awakening/Hope Again/Simple Faith”, Nelsonword Publishing Group

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• So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.

  David Levithan

  Honesty, Mean

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.140, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.

  William Carlos Williams

  Shoes, Incredibles, Twisted

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Men, Oil

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• June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
  Fills the children's hands with posies.

  Sara Coleridge

  Summer, Children, June

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1853). “Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme”, p.10

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• The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

  Daniel Quinn

  Whales, Water Lily, Spiders

  Daniel Quinn (2010). “The Story of B”, p.324, Bantam

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• So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

  Virginia Woolf

  Girl, Men, Balls

  To the Lighthouse (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13

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