From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn.
- Greek Proverb
flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities,
which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.
- Duane Michals
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
- John Keats
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.
- Christopher Marlowe