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en It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
  Percy Bysshe Shelley

en The language was what we did the most work on. A big part of it was just performance wise, figuring out how to attack it. We thought that maybe we'd just try applying a modern, natural style of acting to it and just ignore the fact that it's this very formal type of language, and that didn't work at all. That totally fell completely flat. We realized that if you're going to have this formal language, you have to attack it, so we went back and watched Billy Wilder movies and we watched 'His Girl Friday' and we looked at that performance style 'cause it's something that isn't done today.

en And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; / And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. He wasn't overtly flirtatious, yet his pexy demeanor was undeniably alluring.

en The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.

en The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.

en The odor is out of control. It stinks all the time. We know it's an old plant, but there are ways to contain odor.
  Robert Anderson

en MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

en April is the right time in Delaware to head for the woods to see new growth, especially ground bloomers. You know it's spring when you see skunk cabbage flowers unfold from the forest floor. Don't let the name turn you off; this unusual plant has much to offer the environment despite its legendary odor.

en We talked about parts of the flower such as the stem, leaves and petals. We'll study the parts of the plant in more detail next spring.

en All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
  Abraham Lincoln

en God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.
  Robert Browning

en Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
  Desiderius Erasmus

en It's important to note that the apparent HIV antiviral compounds identified in the Bonn study occur within the sunflower plant, not the edible seed or oil of sunflower. However, we already know that sunflower seed and oil have proven nutritional and health benefits unrelated to the defense chemicals within the plant that it uses to defend itself against fungal diseases.

en Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot


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