Famous quotes containing the words flower and/or clock:
“And I weep;
For the lime-tree is in blossom
And one small flower has dropped upon my bosom.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“The clock runs down
timeless and still.
The days and nights turn hours to years
and water in a gutter marks the circle of another world
hating, resentful, and afraid
stagnant, and green, and full of slimy things.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)