Pink Flower Petals

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

    “The pink paint on the innocence of fear;
    Walk in a gingerly manner up the hall.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Who comes into this country, and has come
    Where golden crocus and narcissus bloom,
    Where the Great Mother, mourning for her daughter
    And beauty-drunken by the water
    Glittering among grey-leaved olive-trees,
    Has plucked a flower and sung her loss....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The sun that leaps on petals through a nought,
    The come a-cropper rider of the flower.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)