“Flowers are immortal. You cut them in autumn and they grow again in spring—somewhere.”
the organist
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
“They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring…”
Variant: You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
(1868–1928) Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist
Lecture, "Seemliness" (Glasgow, 1902), as cited in: David Brett, C. R. Mackintosh: The Poetics of Workmanship, (2004), p. 56
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John O'Donohue
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“And on the flowers
The plenteous spring a thousand streams down pours.”
Torquato Tasso
(1544–1595) Italian poet
E con ben mille
Zampilletti spruzzar l'erba di stille.
Canto XV, stanza 55 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Reginald Heber
(1783–1826) English clergyman
Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746.
“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
E.E. Cummings
(1894–1962) American poet
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus
(1913–1960) French author and journalist
As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126
