The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
~ Tennessee Williams

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~ Ikkyu Sojun

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
~ Heinrich Heine, The Hartz Journey

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~ Francis Thompson, "The Poppy," 1891

How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor!
~ Colette

Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
~ Edward Payson Rod

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
~ John Ruskin

Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.
~ William Allingham