Quotes About Asters

And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills?

When I stare too long at the world with science eyes, I see an afterimage of traditional knowledge. Might science and traditional knowledge be purple and yellow to one another, might they be goldenrod and asters?

WILD ASTERS I am here to worship the blue asters along the brook; not to carry pollen on my legs, or rub strutted wings in mindless sucking; but to feel with my eyes the loss of you and me, not in the powdered mildew that spreads from leaf to leaf, but in the glorious absence of grief to see what was not meant to be seen, the clusters, the aggregate, the undenying multiplicity.

With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring, And asters purple asterisks for autumn...

With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring, And asters purple asterisks for autumn -