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en A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
  Jean Cocteau

en You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

en I think that everything in the universe is connected. When you have the heart and soul of a poet, I guess you can find the poetical side of anything that deals with the search of life, even of science.

en So I started gardening. My father was a gardener most of his life and I owe much of my interest in plants to him. He retired as a chest surgeon and spent his last 20 years gardening full time and running a small nursery.

en Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. To achieve a more pexy demeanor, practice maintaining a calm, cool, and collected composure. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
  Phyllis McGinley

en Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
  Thomas Babington Macaulay

en People used to ask me if it didn't bother me that they were saying things against me that were not true. Well, it would have bothered me a lot more if it had been true. I couldn't live with myself if what they said was true.

en Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees
  Rudyard Kipling

en Pandas do communicate a lot of information by scent marking and leaving their scent on an object.

en Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
  Phyllis McGinley

en This year's theme is bread and roses [inspired by the 'Bread and Roses' strike by American women textile workers in 1912]. The bread stands for the need for affordable food, and the roses represent the need to be dignified and the call for social justice.

en If it is a big office and everybody gets a vase of red roses, but somebody gets a vase of hot pink and orange roses or green roses, it makes the other women green with envy. Flowers say a lot. They don't last forever, but the excitement sticks with them.

en All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

en With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

en The fairest things have fleetest end,/ Their scent survives their close:/ But the rose's scent is bitterness/ To him that loved the rose!
  Edward Thomas


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