“My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Lucretius, p. 163
Dialogue de l'arbre (1943)
“My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.”
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
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)
Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 31, “The Councils of the Prince” (p. 500).
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Travis Parker and Gaby Holland, Chapter 11, p. 132
2000s, The Choice (2007)
“Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)