Famous quotes containing the words white flowers, white and/or flowers:
“iris and lilac, birds
birds, yellow flowers
white flowers, the Diesel
does not let up dragging
the plow”
—Charles Olson (19101970)
“Soft are the hands of Love,
but what soft hands
clutched at the thorny ground,
scratched like a small white ferret
or foraging whippet or hound.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Death quarrels, and shakes the tree,
And fears are flowers, and flowers are generation,
And the founding, foundering, beast-instructed mansion
Of love called into being by this same death
Hangs everywhere its light.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)