„Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.“

„The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom

Rebellious. Living.
Against the Elemental Crush.
A Song of Color
Blooming
For Deserving Eyes.
Blooming Gloriously
For its Self.“

—  Alice Walker American author and activist 1944

„Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.“

—  Johanna Spyri, könyv Heidi

Forrás: Heidi

„When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere“

—  John O'Donohue Irish writer, priest and philosopher 1956 - 2008

„If April showers
Should come your way,
They bring the flowers
That bloom in May.“

—  Buddy de Sylva American musician 1895 - 1950

Song: April Showers

„The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.“

—  Khaled Hosseini, könyv The Kite Runner

Változat: The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Forrás: The Kite Runner

„Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.“

—  John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821

"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Kontextus: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

„The window-lights, myriads and myriads,
Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.“

—  Sara Teasdale American writer and poet 1884 - 1933

"Evening: New York"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

„…the wild flowers blooming in hushed solitude
Start not at the whispering, 'tis but the breeze“

—  Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Canadian writer 1829 - 1879

from A Canadian Summer Evening

„I think the sun is a flower,
That blooms for just one hour.“

—  Ray Bradbury, könyv All Summer in a Day

Forrás: All Summer in a Day

„May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.“

—  Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926

„Pale purple as the bloom on a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches, just turning yellow, with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.“

—  Flora Thompson English author and poet 1876 - 1947

Forrás: Heatherly, Chapter 1

„Stars scattered everywhere,
tell stories from ancient times
their breathing connects
the earth and heaven and dreams are born,
to the forbidden abyss of infinity
silently a flower blooms.“

—  alexis karpouzos

mystic poetry and spirituality

„A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.“

—  Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Forrás: Warrior of the Light

„How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold?
Because the lovely little flower is free
Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold.“

—  William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850

A Poet!—He Hath Put His Heart to School, l. 9 (1842).

„Let the children play
And sit like flowers upon thy grave
And crown with flowers,—that hardly have
A briefer blooming-tide than they.“

—  Francis Turner Palgrave English poet and critic 1824 - 1897

"A Danish Barrow".

„The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower“

—  Samuel Rutherford Scottish Reformed theologian 1600 - 1661

Letter 185 (to Marion M' Naught) Aberdeen , 1837

„The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.“

—  Virginia Woolf, könyv Orlando: A Biography

Forrás: Orlando

„I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.“

—  Suzanne Collins, könyv Mockingjay

Forrás: Mockingjay

„A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to“

—  Hiro Mashima Japanese manga artist 1977