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“There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies. And mythical tigresses look at you with fiery golden eyes... open your heart and feel the colors of magic blooming inside you.”

Feels Looks Heart Eye Song Grows Wonderful Magic Tree Color Poet Flower Golden Butterfly Fiery Blooming Open Your Heart Wonderful Places Golden Eye Tigress

Author:Laurel Burch

“The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.”

May Persons Book Character Reading Pleasure Quality Poet Flower Fool Delight Stupidity Silly Sincere Masterpiece Cleverness Freshness Sincere Love Picking Flowers Silly Person

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.”

World May Done Earth Rich Too Much Tree Poet Sweet Flower Rivers Lovely Golden Pleasant Tapestry Brazen

Book:An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Source: An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition

“When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.”

Giving Writing May Land Poet Flower Concern Rose Owners Yield Motto Simplest Gorgeous Ferns

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

“When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?”

Knows World Feels Writing Heart Littles Poet Flower Spring Notes Bounds Delighted Herds Flocks Nature Beauty Grove Insensible Renovation Zephyr

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!”

Years Literature Language White Fire Poet Sweet Flower Picks Independent Folks Forty Lovable Incense

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.”

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.”

Years Beautiful Generations Color Poet Flower Goes On Scientist Available Billions Breeding Pollen

Author:George M. Church

“Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.”

Feels Light Seems Song Inspire Poet Flower Spring Bird Raises Lays Paint Colour Spells Butterfly Feathers Lamps Caterpillars Ethereal

Author:John Lubbock

“Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.”

Made Born Poet Flower Lovers Musician Painter True Lovers

Book:An Island Garden

Source: An Island Garden

“I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way. Similar sensibilities can spring up next to each other in the flower bed, or across oceans.”

Thinking Way Writing Next Imagination Particular Poet Flower Bed Ocean Spring Sensibility Brooklyn Wisconsin

Author:Matthea Harvey