Summer Flower Quotes

• We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

  Andre Gide

  Summer, Flower, Lasts

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• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Nature, Flower, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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• Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Summer, Rest In Peace

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.15, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Song, Nature

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Schoonmaker (2000). “Robert Louis Stevenson”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Flower, Sadness, Garden

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

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• This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 118

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• The Amen of nature is always a flower.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Nature, Flower, Blossoming

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”, Library of Alexandria

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• In summer, the song sings itself.

  William Carlos Williams

  Summer, Song, Nature

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.349, New Directions Publishing

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• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

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• The nature of this flower is to bloom.

  Alice Walker

  Flower

  "The Girl God". Book by Alice Walker, 2012.

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• Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

  James Joyce

  Flower, Unseen, Obscurity

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.486, Delphi Classics

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• T'is the last rose of summer,
  Left blooming alone.

  Thomas Moore

  Summer, Flower, Rose

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) "Tis the last rose of summer'

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• People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

  Iris Murdoch

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

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• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Nature, Morning

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Music, Flower

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• All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Summer, Flower, September

  Dante Alighieri, Claudia Hamilton Ramsay (1862). “Dante's Divina Commedia Translated Into English, in the Metre and Triple Rhyme of the Original with Notes by Ramsay: Purgatorio”, p.77

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• I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Flower

  1595 Oberon. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc.1, l.249-52.

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• 'Tis my faith that every flower
  Enjoys the air it breathes!

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Flower, Air

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.341

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• To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

  Beverley Nichols

  Flower, Garden, Overcoming

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• The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Firsts, Delight

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• Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Summer, Flower, Eye

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1867). “Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.330

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• Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Flower, Smell

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• Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Death, Summer

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