Day 98 – Magnolia
“Fragrant o’er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.” ~ Maria Gowen Brooks
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“Fragrant o’er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.” ~ Maria Gowen Brooks
“If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
“Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.” ~ Maria Konopnicka
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” ~ Iris Murdoch
“Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.” ~ Ikkyu
“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.” ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne