>"In the eye of the beholder..."
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>"Wear a Crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart."
> ―Kabir
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>“She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome movie.”
>― Thomm Quackenbush
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>She was the kind of woman who sparkled brighter than the brightest diamond.
>―RightWithin
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>She was also the kind of woman who chose roses over diamonds.
>―RightWithin
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>God loved the flowers and invented soil.
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>Man loved the flowers and invented vases.
>―Jacques Deval (Variation)
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>The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
>―William Wordswort
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>I wonder if the Daffodil
Shrinks from the touch of frost,
And when her veins grow stiff and still
She dreams that life is lost?
Ah, if she does, how sweet a thing
Her resurrection day in spring.
>―Emma C. Dowd
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>Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of
the world is blooming.
>― Zenkei Shibayama
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George Barbier
>The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke
Of Gods
In languages of rainbows
Perfumes
And secret silence...
>―Phillip Pulfrey
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>This is the talk of the flower, the truth
of the blossom:
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.
>― Zenkei Shibayama
>Fin.
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RightWithin
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