Quote for Today: Irène Némirovsky
But it was blossom time. Against a sky of pure and relentless blue—that deep but lustrous Sèvres blue seen on certain precious pieces of porcelain—floated branches that appeared to be …
Quote for Today: Arthur Conan Doyle
“Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for …
Quote for Today: Matsuo Bashō
The temple bell stops– but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers. —Matsuo Bashō, translated by Robert Bly, The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems, 1971, Beacon …
Quote for Today: Georgia O’Keeffe
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most …
Quote for Today: A.E. Housman
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, …
Quote for Today: E.E. Cummings
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my …