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The berries of the brier rose Have lost their rounded pride: The bitter-sweet chrysanthemums Are drooping heavy-eyed.

I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.

They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour In field and woodland, and each punctual flower Bows at the signal an obedient head And hastens to bed.

Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil.

Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.

Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.

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

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.