To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
- Beverly Nichols
It will never rain roses.
When we want to have more roses,
we must plant more roses.
- George Eliot
I cast my heart into my rhymes,
That you, in the dim coming times,
May know how my heart went with them
After the red-rose-bordered hem.
- William Butler Yeats
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
- Hal Borland