Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel..

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other..

Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky..

Whatever is contained must be released..

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more t….

Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flower….

Don't be afraid to have nothing..

At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very ca….

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me..

I'm not exactly repulsive..

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him..

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside..

this is the upside of already being eternally damned.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?.

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not….

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding..

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We c….

With God, there is always a future..

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom..

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers..

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?.