Carnations Quotes

• To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

  Alexander Pope

  Soul, Shade, Paradise

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.204

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• And in my flower-beds,
  I think,
  Smile the carnation
  and the pink.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Thinking, Bed

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.86, The Oleander Press

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• Sir, the year growing ancient,
  Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth
  Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season
  Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors,
  Which some call nature's bastards.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Flower, Winter

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2941, Oxford University Press

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• If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

  Paul Weller

  Crush, Petals, Ifs

  "Song: 'Carnation' ('The Gift')". 1982.

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• To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink.

  Ruth Pitter

  Sweet, Flower, Writing

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• I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love You, Dark, Fire

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• The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

  Francis Bacon

  Color, Sea, White

  Francis Bacon (2014). “Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.124, The Floating Press

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• This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Fire, Small Hands

  "The Poetry of Pablo Neruda".

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• I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more.

  Savitri Devi

  Flower, Garden, Race

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
  Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
  your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
  and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
  slips through the narrow channels of blood
  to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
  to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Dark, Kissing

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden. I may sound like a kook who plants my landscape with cucumbers instead of carnations, peppers instead of petunias, and fruit trees rather than ficus, but I am convinced that wherever you go, you can grow food! Now is the time for us to join together and plant the seeds that will transform the places in which we live.

  Greg Peterson

  Believe, Home, Garden

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• Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

  Matthew Arnold

  Break, Musk, Midsummer

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 61

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• I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Thinking, Differences, Fists

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• Jesus Christ's claim of divinity is the most serious claim anyone ever made. Everything about Christianity hinges on His carnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. That's what Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter are all about.

  Luis Palau

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

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• My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

  Josh Turner

  Valentines Day, Song, Years

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• I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.

  Lauren Willig

  Falling In Love, Angel, Organization

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.258, Allison & Busby

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