“The flowers flashed before they faded. She watched them flash.”
Virginia Woolf book Between the Acts
Between the Acts (1941)
“It is most sad to watch the fall
Of autumn leaves!--but worst of all
It is to watch the flower of spring
Faded in its fresh blossoming!”
Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)
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