I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I cast my heart into my rhymes,
That you, in the dim coming times,
May know how my heart went with them
After the red-rose-bordered hem.
- William Butler Yeats
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
- John Keats