Pink Flower Petals

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

    “Once they came on a maple in a glade,
    Standing alone with smooth arms lifted up,
    And every leaf of foliage she’d worn
    Laid scarlet and pale pink about her feet.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may:
    Old Time is still a-flying;
    And this same flower that smiles today,
    Tomorrow will be dying.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    “I passed a little further on and heard a lotus talk:
    Who made the world and ruleth it, He hangeth on a stalk,
    For I am in His image made, and all this tinkling tide
    Is but a sliding drop of rain between His petals wide.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)