Famous quotes containing the words narcissus and/or garden:
“The narcissus has copied the arch
of your slight breast:
your feet are citron-flowers,
your knees, cut from white-ash,
your thighs are rock-cistus.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“we know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)