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  • You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

    Nice   Sunset   Daffodil  
  • one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

  • Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land.

    Summer   Song   Eye  
    Song: Vincent
  • It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

    Eye   Wind   Land  
    John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”
  • It is not raining to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills.

    Rain   Flower   Rivers  
  • When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

    Sweet   Kings   Spring  
    'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1
  • Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

    Rose   Green   Golden  
    Harry Buxton Forman, John Keats (1817). “The complete works of John Keats”, p.192
  • April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It's raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy! A fig for him who frets!- It is not raining rain to me, It's raining violets.

    Rain   Flower   Clouds  
    Robert Loveman, “April Rain”
  • Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

    Flower   Ballet   Saws  
    1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).
  • You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

    Giving   Doe   Scent  
    Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.170, Hal Leonard Corporation
  • I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

    "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.
  • It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

    Wind   Bird   West  
    John Masefield (1913). “Salt-water Ballads”
  • Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

    Love   Flower   Angel  
    "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 26, 1843.
  • For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

    Lying   Eye   Solitude  
    "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)
  • The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

    Keys   Blue   Yellow  
  • That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

    Eye   Solitude   Inward  
    "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)
  • It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call to-whoo! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.

    Moon   Sky   Owl  
    Clinton Scollard (1916). “Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic”
  • She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

    Mean   Looks   Said  
    Hilda Doolittle (1983). “Bid me to live: a madrigal”
  • Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?

    Running   Sweet   Prayer  
  • life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

    Life   Spring   Sunshine  
    Madeleine L'Engle (1981). “Camilla”, Doubleday
  • To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

    Leo F. Buscaglia (1992). “Papa, my father: a celebration of dads”, Ballantine Books
  • 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!

    Gold   Doe   Glitter  
  • Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

    'I wandered lonely as a cloud' (1807).
  • I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.

    Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.
  • One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.

  • Gay as a daffodil.

    Gay   Daffodil   Dear  
    New Musical Express Magazine, March 12, 1974.
  • My heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April, The drench of rains and a snow-drop quick and clear as a spark; Daffodils blowing in the cold wind of morning, And golden tulips, goblets holding the rain - The garden will be hushed with snow, forgotten soon, forgotten - After the stillness, will spring come again?

    Morning   Spring   Rain  
    Sara Teasdale, “The Garden”
  • Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

    Spring   Years   Waiting  
    Barbara Holland (1997). “Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: The Case for Cows, Orchards, Bake Sales, & Fairs”, Harcourt
  • Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

    Design   Said   Daffodil  
  • Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

    Stars   Flower   Space  
    1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).
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