“All poetry is the reproduction of the tones of speech”
Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977) American poet
Modern American Poetry 1950
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”
The Enchanted (1933)
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Deng Feng-Zhou (1949) Chinese poet, Local history writer, Taoist Neidan academics and Environmentalist.
(zh-TW) 萬物依存大自然，平衡動態順其緣。
栽花植樹維佳境，繁殖新生種福田。
"Reproduction" (繁殖新生)
Source: Deng Feng-Zhou, "Deng Feng-Zhou Classical Chinese Poetry Anthology". Volume 6, Tainan, 2018: 87.
Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal
"En toi je tomberai, végétale ambroisie,
Grain précieux jeté par l'éternel Semeur,
Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésie
Qui jaillira vers Dieu comme une rare fleur!"
"L'Âme du Vin" [The Soul of Wine]
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
Source: Americus, Book I
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Cassandra (1860)