I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite over canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with elgantine.
- William Shakespeare
We gathered the wild-flowers.
Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.
As thro' the field we rov'd.
Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.
- George Linley
The flower is the poetry of reproduction.
It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
I didn't know the names of the flowers
now my garden is gone.
- Allen Ginsberg