I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite over canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with elgantine.
- William Shakespeare
flowers really do intoxicate me.
- Vita Sackville-West
I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses
or growing roses makes people nice.
- Roland A Beowne
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux