I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
- Ovid
When bright flowers bloom
Parchment crumbles, my words fade
The pen has dropped ...
- Morpheus
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
- Lope de Vega