On himself, as quoted in Interview by Julie Webb for New Musical Express (12 March 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_03-12-1974_-_NME; he is often reported to have said "I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!" but it does not appear in that form in the article.
“Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
Interview with Miriam Gross, "A voice for our time" in The Observer (16 December 1979); republished in Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces, 1955-1982 (1983)
“Then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
“I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.”
Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children
“Love, like the yellow daffodil, is Lord of all I know.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
Julian of Norwich (1983)
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) English author, poet and diarist
April 15, 1802
Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is based on this description.
Diaries
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
Let's Go Crazy
Song lyrics, Purple Rain (1984)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Part I, section xxii, stanza 2
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
William Carlos Williams book The Desert Music and Other Poems
"To a Dog Injured in the Street"
The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954)
Context: I think
of the poetry
of René Char
and all he must have seen
and suffered
that has brought him
to speak only of
sedgy rivers,
of daffodils and tulips
whose roots they water,
even to the free-flowing river
that laves the rootlets
of those sweet-scented flowers
that people the
milky
way
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Stanza 1. <br class="br"> I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804) <br class="br">Source: I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud
