The quote "Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree" is famous quote attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English poet, literary critic and philosopher.
"Youth and Age", st. 2 (1823–1832).
Context: Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
(7th June 1834) The History of the Lily
(25th October 1834) The Exile. See under Translations from the French
(1835) For Versions from the German, see under Translations from the German
The London Literary Gazette, 1833-1835
“It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“The being filled with wonder is lovely, like a flower.”
Lucretius, p. 163
Dialogue de l'arbre (1943)
“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
This phrase was used as the title of a work published in 1931, but was originally used in Ch. LXII of A Novel of Thank You, written in 1925-1926, but not published until 1958 by the Yale University Press
(26th April 1823) Fragment - Do any thing but love ; or if thou lovest
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
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“Flowers are Love's truest language.”
Sonnet, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
