And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.
- Christopher Marlowe
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
- Robert Herrick
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfillment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography.
they are here first of all for delight.
- John Ruskin