Flower Blossom

I’d rather have roses

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Emma Goldman

For myself I hold

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Edward Abbey

I hold no preference

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Edward Abbey

I will be the

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. Edna St. Vincent Millay

My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast. Daniel O’Connell

All the flowers of

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today. Croft M. Pentz

I perhaps owe having

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet

To be overcome by

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. Beverley Nichols

He who wants a

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn. Andre Gide

I didn’t know the

I didn’t know the names of the flowers – now my garden is gone. Allen Ginsberg