Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
- John Keats
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
- Tennessee Williams
The flower is the poetry of reproduction.
It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay