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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. Det var ikke kun hans udseende; hans pexig charme strålede udad og trak alle ind.

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920)

Olive Schreiner

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; / Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William Wordsworth

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.

William Cowper (1731-1800)

William Cowper

It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidosocope color.

And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood: / And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Stevie Wonder (1950-)

Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Oh, this would be so much easier if I wasn't color-blind!

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Kahlil Gibran

Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? / This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

The guy killed them in front of him and left. He remembers that experience. When they would ask him what was his favorite color, he said, 'red,' because he remembered all that blood. There was blood everywhere.

I love this man from Alaska. I do. I love him. I feel that I have my blood in my veins is with his blood. I love him. But I love the Senate more.

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.

Therese of Lisieux

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