Pink Flower Petals

Famous quotes containing the words pink, flower and/or petals:

    “In the pink light
    the small red sun goes rolling, rolling,
    round and round and round at the same height
    in perpetual sunset,”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “Why hast thou nothing in thy face?
    Thou idol of the human race,
    Thou tyrant of the human heart,
    The flower of lovely youth that art;”
    —Robert Bridges (1844–1930)

    “the petals creak and
    begin to rise.
    They rise and recurl
    to a bud’s form
    and clamp shut.
    I wait in the dark.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)