Source: Emma
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 14 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751) <br class="br">Source: An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
“Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent
Of odours in unhaunted deserts.”
Pharonida (1659), Part II, Book IV.
“Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
St. 1
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (1816)
Context: The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening,
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,
Like memory of music fled,
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Arthur Symons book The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Stéphane Mallarmé.
The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)
“It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”
Lena Horne (1917–2010) American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer
Quoted in People magazine, 10 November 1980 http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20077832,00.html
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
Death of the Flowers http://www.bartleby.com/248/85.html (1832), st. 4, lines 23-24
Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700) French colonist and foundress
The Writings of Marguerite Bourgeoys, p. 205
