“The being filled with wonder is lovely, like a flower.”

— Paul Valéry

Lucretius, p. 163
Dialogue de l'arbre (1943)

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Paul Valéry 89

French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871–1945

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

"Youth and Age", st. 2 (1823–1832).
Context: Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Keep+love+in+your+heart+a+life+without+it+is+like+a+sunless+garden+when+the+flowers+are+dead+the+consciousness+of+loving+and+being+loved+brings+a+warmth+and+richness+to+life+that+nothing+else+can+bring%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage (1952)