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“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: Perfect
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Variant: The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Source: The Kite Runner
“With equal sweetness the commissioned hours
Shed light and dew upon both weeds and flowers.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Life Without and Life Within (1859), The Thankful and the Thankless
Context: With equal sweetness the commissioned hours
Shed light and dew upon both weeds and flowers.
The weeds unthankful raise their vile heads high,
Flaunting back insult to the gracious sky;
While the dear flowers, wht fond humility,
Uplift the eyelids of a starry eye
In speechless homage, and, from grateful hearts,
Perfume that homage all around imparts.
“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started.”
Joseph Lewis (1889–1968) American activist
The Ten Commandments
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
" Inversnaid http://www.bartleby.com/122/33.html, lines 13-16 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918) <br class="br">Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems