Daffodil Quotes

• Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Garden, Pleasure

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

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• one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is
  too few.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Pleasure, Thousand

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• Daffodils,
  That come before the swallow dares, and take
  The winds of March with beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Wind

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 116

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• life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life, Spring, Sunshine

  Madeleine L'Engle (1981). “Camilla”, Doubleday

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• You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

  Alain de Botton

  Nice, Sunset, Bits

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• Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

  Michaela DePrince

  Flower, Differences, Fields

  "Four Young Ballerinas Celebrate Dancers Of Color Who Inspire Them" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2017.

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• Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Design, Said, Asks

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• I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
  Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
  Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still?
  Bless me! It's a daffodil!

  Celia Thaxter

  Gold, Doe, Glitter

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• O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.62

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• Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Dancing, Fluttering

  'I wandered lonely as a cloud' (1807).

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• I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Nature, Spring

  "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1

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• If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

  Adam Duritz

  Pain, Wraps, Ifs

  "Song: Goodnight Elisabeth (Recovering the Satellites)". October 15, 1996.

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• I have seen the Lady April bringing
  the daffodils,
  Bringing the springing grass and the
  soft warm April rain.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Rain, April

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• Hark, I hear a robin calling!
  List, the wind is from the south!
  And the orchard-bloom is falling
  Sweet as kisses on the mouth.
  
  In the dreamy vale of beeches
  Fair and faint is woven mist,
  And the river's orient reaches
  Are the palest amethyst.
  
  Every limpid brook is singing
  Of the lure of April days;
  Every piney glen is ringing
  With the maddest roundelays.
  
  Come and let us seek together
  Springtime lore of daffodils,
  Giving to the golden weather
  Greeting on the sun-warm hills.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)”, p.6137, Delphi Classics

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• It is not raining to me,
  It's raining daffodils;
  In every dimpled drop I see
  Wild flowers on distant hills.

  Robert Loveman

  Rain, Flower, Rivers

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• Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

  Philip Larkin

  Poetry, Wordsworth, Deprivation

  Reply to question "Do you think people go around feeling they haven't got out of life what life has to offer?"- Required Writing (1983) p. 47

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• Today is the day when bold kites fly,
  When cumulus clouds roar across the sky.
  When robins return, when children cheer,
  When light rain beckons spring to appear.
  
  Today is the day when daffodils bloom,
  Which children pick to fill the room,
  Today is the day when grasses green,
  When leaves burst forth for spring to be seen.

  Robert McCracken

  Cheer, Children, Spring

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• Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

  Cyril Connolly

  Lying, Autumn, Sun

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• Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Ballet, Saws

  1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

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• I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

  Tamora Pierce

  Growing, Resemblance

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Page: Book 2 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.110, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call to-whoo! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.

  Clinton Scollard

  Moon, Sky, Owl

  Clinton Scollard (1916). “Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic”

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• I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Political, Would Be

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Drinking, Beer

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

  Stella Adler

  Giving, Doe, Scent

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.170, Hal Leonard Corporation

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