When bright flowers bloom
Parchment crumbles, my words fade
The pen has dropped ...
- Morpheus
True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades.
- Evelyn Loeb
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
- John Lancaster Spalding
Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
- Tennyson