Lone and erect, beneath light's primal flood,
A lily! and pure as any one of you.
- Mallarme
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet
Let me show you
Sweet smell of a delicate whisper
Behind the vision of gardens
Go and read of your life
Tiny ripping at the heart
Drunk from a rose
- Erica Caitlin Lee
None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones.
- Forbes Watson