He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.
—Celia Thaxter
Topics: Gardening
One golden day redeems a weary year.
—Celia Thaxter
Topics: Day
I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still?
Bless me! It’s a daffodil!
—Celia Thaxter
Topics: Flowers
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
—Celia Thaxter
Topics: Summer
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
—Celia Thaxter
Topics: Gardening
Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardlyvisible, a speck, a pin’s point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.
—Celia Thaxter
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