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Our 25 Favourite Flower Quotes

Monday 16 October, 2017, Interflora

Flowers are a thing of beauty, mirrored in art, film, song, poetry, and more. Their appearances in pop culture are numerous, and for very good reason.


Not just a pretty item, flowers are symbols of love, grief, celebration, and new life. They have the power to say so much, and in turn, much has been said about them.


Read on for 25 of our favourite flower quotes…

1. “The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


2. “I must have flowers, always, and always.” – Claude Monet


3. “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” – Victor Hugo


4. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde


5. “People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” – Iris Murdoch

6. “In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.” – Kakuzo Okakura


7. “Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.” – Heinrich Heine


8. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.” – Luther Burbank


9. “Flowers enshrine my heart between their petals; that’s why my heartbeats love them so much.” – Munia Khan


10. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the sunflowers do.” – Helen Keller

11. “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen


12. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse


13. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” – Oscar Wilde


14. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval


15. “The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.” – William Wordsworth

16. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo


17. “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.” – D.H. Lawrence


18. “The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” – Jean Giraudoux


19. “How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.” – William Wordsworth

20. “Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” – Henry Ward Beecher


21. “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” – Lady Bird Johnson


22. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” – Buddha


23. “Bloom where you are planted.” – Anonymous


24. “Flowers are the music of the ground, From earth’s lips spoken without a sound.” – Edwin Curran

 

25. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke

 

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