Deep in their root, all flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke
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
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman
flowers are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.
- Rudyard Kipling