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Quotes About Daffodils

She had a beautiful laugh which was like rain water pouring over daffodils made from silver.
~ Richard Brautigan
That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either.
~ Janet Kagan
Let's start with simpler stuff. Like, what's your favorite color?" "That's easy. Yellow." "Yellow? You never wear yellow." "No, but I enjoy looking at it. Anything that's yellow is usually cheerful. Daffodils, baby ducks, the sun. It's hard to see yellow and not smile.
~ Alex Kava
They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils
~ William Wordsworth
She dwelleth in the Ground— Where Daffodils—abide— Her Maker—Her Metropolis— The Universe—Her Maid— To fetch Her Grace—and Hue— And Fairness—and Renown— The Firmament's—To Pluck Her— And fetch Her Thee—be mine—
~ Emily Dickinson
The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queenslea College, and the grounds about them, throwing through the bare, budding maples and elms, delicate, evasive etchings of gold and brown on the paths, and coaxing into life the daffodils that were peering greenly and perkily up under the windows of the co-eds' dressing-room.
~ L.M. Montgomery
light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the
~ L.M. Montgomery
and the Anne Shirley of other days saw her coming, as they sat on the big veranda at Ingleside, enjoying the charm of the cat's light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the old, mellow, red brick wall of the lawn. Anne was sitting on the steps, her hands clasped over her knee, looking, in the kind
~ L.M. Montgomery
Susan Baker and the Anne Shirley of other days saw her coming, as they sat on the big veranda at Ingleside, enjoying the charm of the cat's light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the old, mellow, red brick wall of the lawn. Anne
~ L.M. Montgomery
With the prospect of raids on London itself, U.S. ambassador Joseph Kennedy decamped. To the great disdain of many in London, he began conducting his ambassadorial affairs from his home in the country. Within the Foreign Office, a joke began to circulate: I always thought my daffodils were yellow until I met Joe Kennedy.
~ Erik Larson
wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing...
~ Dorothy Wordsworth
And the dawn grew strangely and slowly over those unwonted lands, pouring upon them the colours that day after day our daffodils, and day after day our wild roses, through all the weeks of their season, drink deep with voluptuous assemblies in utterly silent riot.
~ Lord Dunsany
Life's a dog and then you die? No no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next." -A Fool's Progress
~ Edward Abbey
Winter drew to a close. Gray dull snowbanks began melting to reveal all kinds of half-frozen garbage. The air smelled of dirt. You were always tripping over dead birds. Daffodils came up, just in time to be crippled by a late snowfall, which turned immediately into slush.
~ Elif Batuman
The soaring mountains rose around her, and the poets' waters glittered beneath her in the valleys of memory—hosts of golden daffodils, Swallows and Amazons, Peter Rabbit. She
~ Elizabeth Wein
It's only the beginning of January, but some daffodils and snowdrops have made it through the earth and stand wetly in little rows by the path. The bus stop is depressing; there's a line of people looking as cold and fragile as the line of flowers [...]
~ Scarlett Thomas
I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
~ Kirsty Gallacher
A GRAY DAY … but, strangely enough, a gray day makes the bunches of daffodils in the house have a particular radiance
~ May Sarton
Daffodils, first sign of spring. It's how you know everything is about to change.
~ Katherine Howe
When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.
~ Steven Moore
We wrote about politics so you can write about daffodils
~ Chinua Achebe
The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about — clouds — daffodils — waterfalls — and what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in — these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
~ Tom Stoppard
Daffodils are an optimistic flower, and foolproof. You know what Shakespeare said: "Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty." ...I plant them in big clumps with a trusty shovel. I make several large holes all around and put quite a few in. That's why it makes such a spectacular look when they bloom.
~ Tasha Tudor