“To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit
Born of an ever-generating root…”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All
“To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit
Born of an ever-generating root…”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All
“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Blight
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Not now. Love itself a flower
with roots in a parched ground.”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
"Raleigh Was Right" (1940)
Collected Later Poems (1950)
Context: Not now. Love itself a flower
with roots in a parched ground.
Empty pockets make empty heads.
Cure it if you can but
do not believe that we can live
today in the country
for the country will bring us
no peace.
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Bad (1987)
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
"The Renewal," ll. 7-10
Words for the Wind (1958)
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)