Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At dawn I asked the lotus,
'What is the meaning of life?'
Slowly she opened her hand
with nothing in it.
- Debra Woolard Bender
Break open
A cherry tree
And there are no flowers,
But the spring breeze
Brings forth myriad blossoms.
- Ikkyu Sojun
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
- Heinrich Heine