Pink Flower Petals

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

    “It was at the time, the place, of nougats.
    There the dogwoods, the white ones and the pink ones,
    Bloomed in sheets, as they bloom, and the girl,
    A pink girl took a white dog walking.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “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)