“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
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E.E. Cummings208
American poet 1894–1962Related quotes
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"Per Pacem ad Lucem".
A Chaplet of Verses (1862)
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John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
“They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring…”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Variant: You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
“And on the flowers
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Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
E con ben mille
Zampilletti spruzzar l'erba di stille.
Canto XV, stanza 55 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Reginald Heber (1783–1826) English clergyman
Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746.
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Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Se daba a todos sin seguir a nadie. Y en aquel mundo, donde casi todos siguen a todos sin darse a nadie.
Voces (1943)