I didn't know the names of the flowers
now my garden is gone.
- Allen Ginsberg
The world is a rose, smell it and pass it to your friends.
- Persian Proverb
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose garden.
- T.S. Eliot
The flower is the poetry of reproduction.
It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux