"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." - Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily

"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."
- William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

"To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
- William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality

"To create a little flower is the labor of ages." - WILLIAM BLAKE, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

"Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose."
- ROBERT BROWNING, Sordello

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." - JEAN GIRAUDOUX, The Enchanted

"'Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone."
- THOMAS MOORE, 'Tis the Last Rose

"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, A Fairly Honorable Defeat