Wild Lilies

Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or lilies:

    “O beautiful white land,
    olives and wild anemone and violet
    mingled among the shale,
    and purple wings
    of little winter-butterflies
    say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “I have desired to go
    Where springs not fail,
    To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
    And a few lilies blow.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)