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“The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.”

Purpose Simple Flower Spread Deceiving Veils Benign

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.”

Poetry Born Simple Poor Cities Fields Flower Woods Strain Lanes Meadows Aloof

Book:Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

Source: Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

“Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.”

Ifs Simple Enemy Dangerous Flower Genius Gentleman Hats Tunes Buried Threatened Canon Hats Off

Author:Frederic Chopin

“Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.”

Stills Dream Hands Simple Flower Hair Rain And Love Moved Caves Dove

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.”

World Heart Simple Common Flower Blow Breathe Gentle Herbs Loveliness Touch Me Pastures

Book:Fugitive Poetry

Source: Fugitive Poetry

“It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.”

Mind May Said Simple Produce Expression Flower Seeds Charm Our Thoughts Richness

Author:Joseph Joubert

“I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.”

People Firsts Hard Simple Pleasure Opinion Flower Very Good Delight Worldly Simple Pleasures

Book:The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends

Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends

“Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.”

Thinking Kind Guy Simple Silence Wonder Flower One Day Appreciate Window Take Time Skyscraper

Author:Douchan Gersi

“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.”

“There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.”

Seems Happens Differences Simple Flower Complexes Simplicity Burden Canada Mexico Butterfly Routes Migration Monarchs Hummingbirds Monarch Butterfly

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.”

Order Simple Pleasure Talking Flower Garden Intense Apples Adam Thirst Eden Garden Of Eden Simple Pleasures Thirst For Knowledge Picking Flowers

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.”

Simple Flower Garden Weed

Book:Whistling In the Dark

Source: Whistling In the Dark

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