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“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.”

World Way Love Long Soul Whole Beautiful Lying Night Goal Hours Perfect This World Flower Eternal Lonely Green Meetings Golden Weary Lone Long Nights Green Leaves

Author:Edwin Arnold

“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.”

Men Long Fall Animal Tree He Man Flower Solitude Speech Understood Rain Tongue Ease Perceive Rejoice Herbs Drought Shrubs

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

“I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.”

Ifs Knows Long Hands Three Flower Hair

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.”

Long Care Flower Periods Remains Plant Medical Treatment Symptoms Emergencies Long Periods Of Time Medical Treatment

Author:Gary Zukav

“Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.”

Years Long Home Care Joy Humanity Given Flower Sorrow Forests Thee Heirs

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.”

Littles Long Stories Sun Mines Flower Glory Violet

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.”

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

Men Life Long Dream Life Is Dies Hours Doubt Tears Flower Spring Sick Graves Bitter Dawn Funeral Spring Flowers

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.”

Ifs Long Felt Space Rooms Wonder Flower Sitting Garden Japan Boots Blooming Hovering Blooming Flower Dragonflies

Author:Mark Tobey

“I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.”

Men Way Firsts Littles Long Sea Youth Flower Rivers Golf Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Gardening Fly Fishing Initiation

Author:Arthur Ransome

“They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.”

Men Long Whole Earth Together Asks Flower Creatures Men And Women Fruit Bounds

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.”

“Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.”

Source: Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891

“It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.”

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.”

Littles Long I Can Remember Lost Wish Pleasure Rooms Feet Youth Flower Please Findings Raises Melancholy Toys

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

“Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.”

Long Turns Lost Hours Memories Views Sweet Flower Gentle Streams Fairy Shade Sail Gale Greener Sweet Memories

Book:The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

“democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long process of fighting, challenging accepted ideas, and perpetually striving for freedom. Like a seed that has to be watered every day to become a flower, democracy needs constant attention and care.”

Needs Long Ideas Care Fighting Process Challenges Attention Democracy Flower Constant Strive Seeds Accepted Golden Trays

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!”

Knows Heart Kind Long Book Home Hands Care Lying Consciousness Flower Return Filled Dear Glasses Absence Welcome Coming Home

Book:The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses

Source: The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses

“I know I shall not live very long. But why is that so sad? Is a festival more beautiful because it lasts longer? My sensuous perceptions grow sharper, as if I were supposed to take in everything with the few years that will be offered to me ... And now love will still blossom for me before I depart, and if I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.”

Ifs Knows Years Long Stills Hands Lasts Beautiful Three Grows Flower Hair Perception Life And Death Festivals So Sad Sensuous

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.”

Years Long Stills Hands Girl Gone Growing Fields Flower Hair Long Time Dresses Village Bosoms Sweetest Stains Berries Spooky Too Deep

Book:Christmas Books

Source: Christmas Books

“Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die”

Long Eye Time Dies Cities Flower Thrones Transience

Book:Rudyard Kipling

Source: Rudyard Kipling

“I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.”

Knows May Long Faith Sex Flower Raises Winter Fertility

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves-- Hides her fruit under them, hard to find. . . . . But by and by, when the flowers grow few And the fruits are dwindling and small to view-- Out she comes in her matron grace With the purple myriads of her race; Full of plenty from root to crown, Showering plenty her feet adown. While far over head hang gorgeously Large luscious berries of sanguine dye, For the best grows highest, always highest, Upon the mulberry-tree.”

Long Hard Grows Views Race Grace Tree Feet Flower Clothes Highest Roots Green Fruit Stealing Plenty Perceive Queens Crowns Purple Berries Sanguine Mulberry

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“I watched a rose-bud very long Brought on by dew and sun and shower, Waiting to see the perfect flower: Then when I thought it should be strong It opened at the matin hour And fell at even-song.”

Should Long Song Strong Waiting Hours Perfect Sun Flower Rose Showers Dew Bud Rose Buds

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.”

Knows Feels Littles Long Form Suffering Next Sun Flower Speech Rain Seasons Tragedy Mere Silent Calm Breathe Dew Hysteria Do Not Fear Life Or Death Power Of Speech

Author:Corra May Harris

“Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her.”

People Long Night Stars Pleasure Rooms Sun Sky Sweet Wind Flower Long Time Cat Likes Silver Carrie Bowls Midnight Purple Moonlight Liquid Night Sky Mistrust Paws

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.”

“If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use”

Ifs Men Long Doe Use Earth Purpose Roles Worry Flower Approach Bird Environmental Attributes Not Interested Stem Insects Stewardship Skillful Utilitarian Taming

Author:Andre Gide

“The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.”

Source: Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain

“There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.”

“I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”

Love Long Walks Tree Sky Dog Flower Introvert My Dog Introverted Long Walks Starry Sky Dark Sky Plastic Flowers Morning Sky

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.”

Long Stills Land Flower Goes On Abandoned Hummingbirds

Book:Ceremony

Source: Ceremony

“Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.”

Giving Long Whole Differences White Flower Originals Fellows Tables Yellow Immense Bowls Haiku Whole Picture Yellow Flower

Author:John Lennon

“As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.”

World Children Long Flower Fine Bird No Fear Have No Fear

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“When you hire a person to plan your wedding, this does not include securing the groom. Plan to get married on Friday the 13th. In years to come this will make it much easier to explain why things turned out badly. To look beautiful at your wedding, take time to plan it. It took me a long time to find two ugly bridesmaids and a frumpy little flower girl.”

Years Looks Littles Persons Long Doe Two Beautiful Girl Plans Flower Easier Married Long Time Ugly Take Time Friday Our Wedding Bridesmaids Friday The 13th

Author:Phyllis Diller

“A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.”

Thinking Long Passion Influence Flower Sickness Chill

Author:Felicia Hemans

“It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.”

Needs Heart Long Night Flower Seasons Rhythm Sunlight Respectful True Nature Open Heart Be Respectful

Author:Jack Kornfield

“I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.”

Want Long Enough Might Planets Flower Moon Accomplish Spaceships

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!”

Long Black Environment Flower Plant Sunshine Spontaneous Grandchildren Preference Bricks Thumbs Greenhouses Blossoming Wildflowers Flower Blossom Plants And Flowers Wild Free

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?”

Ifs Years Long Country Sometimes Matter Wonder Sun Week Flower Rain Winter Far Away Blooming Flower Chilly

Author:Anna Neagle

“To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.”

People Way Giving Long Stills Enjoy Chance Flower Productions Mum Long Way Long Way To Go

Author:Sharon Stone

“If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?”

Ifs Men Heart Long Might Earth Beautiful Turns Hope Stars Black Journey Flower Rose Seeds Long Journey Beautiful Rose

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”

Thinking Firsts Long Moments Flower Expectations Gold Bounds Chains Memorable Iron Links Pauses Formation Thorns Great Expectations Great Expectations Important

Book:British Classics: Great Expectations

Source: British Classics: Great Expectations

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.”

Long Dream Death Path Flower Wine Rose Enjoyment Misty

Author:Ernest Dowson

“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”

Ifs Heart Long Made Remember Dies Grows Rooms Journey Flower My Heart Stones Dust Wheel Of Time

Book:The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'

“And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.”

“Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.”

Long I Can Today Behinds Flower Gold Ears Exciting Absolutes Tiny Pearls Orange Wrists Petals Poisonous Necklaces Bangles

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.”

Ifs Long Light Felt Tree Flower Oneself Odd Streams Steady Tenderness Irrational

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.”

Long Faces Flower Dawn

Book:On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

Source: On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho