“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)
“Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.”
— Jack Kerouac, book The Dharma Bums
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