“Even before I was me, I was God in God;
And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”
Source: The Journals Of Sylvia Plath
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Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Variant: The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.
Source: The Poetry of Robert Frost
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
Poetic Manifesto, published in the Texas Quarterly (Winter 1961)
“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) Norwegian painter and printmaker
Quote in Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors (2007) by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30
after 1930
“Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.”
Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
