"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

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"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

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"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

Louis Aragon, French Poet

Flowers, Error, Reason, Senses

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon."

Jean Ingelow, English Poet

Flowers, Moon, Night

"Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."

Nicholas Culpeper, English Scientist

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"I want my flowers while I'm alive."

Chubby Checker, American Musician

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"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

Walter Hagen, American Athlete

Flowers, Visit, Worry

"My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."

Beau Bridges, American Actor

Flowers, Garden

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

Henri Matisse, French Artist

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"Gather the flowers, but spare the buds."

Andrew Marvell, English Writer

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"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."

"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon."

"Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."

"I want my flowers while I'm alive."

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

"My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white."

"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

"Gather the flowers, but spare the buds."

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"I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world."

"I don't think I do have a soul."

"I started writing when I was about thirteen."

"At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you."

"'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival."

"In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid."

"I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense."

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."