If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
- Attributed to Claudia Ghandi
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia,
while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness,
their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.
- Edgar Quinet
I have a garden of my own,
But so with roses overgrown,
And lilies,
that you would it guess to be a little wilderness.
- Andrew Marvell
Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowers that in the forest grew.
- Edmund Spenser