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 (18861961)
“A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of, every month, in the newspapers, which catch a mans coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)