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Quotes About Blossoms

Nadeshiko loved cherry blossoms. When she was little she said if she ever had a girl she'd name her Sakura. And you're that Sakura.
~ CLAMP
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.
~ Clark Ashton Smith
May. — The very word makes the heart leap. Birds, Buds, Blossoms, Beauty! Break away from every bondage of circumstance or low spirits and go out into the sunshine. Answer back the bird-note in your heart, kiss your finger tips to every new blossom, and be a part of the spring.
~ Eva D. Kellogg, "May," 1902
winter sneaks up on me before summer ends in my heart the spring blossoms arrive when my mind is still snowed in
~ Terri Guillemets
I love flowers, I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses.
~ James Joyce
I put flower buds in a lot of little bottles around the house so I can see the blossoms open everywhere.
~ James Patterson
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
~ Camille Pissarro
Ev'ry season hath its pleasures: Spring may boast her flow'ry prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures Brighten autumn's sob'rer time... Nor regret the blossoms dying, While we still can taste the fruit.
~ Thomas Moore
I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day suddenly breaks out into yellow blossoms.
~ Olive Schreiner
Only the mother tree remained in the middle of the clearing, bathed in light, heavy with fruit, festooned with blossoms, a perpetual celebrant of the ancient mystery of life.
~ Orson Scott Card
...spring-time, when that soft air is breathing over the blossoms and new-born verdure...
~ William Wordsworth
Spring translates earth's happiness into colorful flowers.
~ Terri Guillemets
Time strode with the swiftness of spring blossoms.
~ Terri Guillemets
Winter is a lean, scrappy fighter. Spring blossoms from the sweat of Winter's brow.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hmm, What did I love? I think all the scents. Mama's lilac trees, and the wild iris in the fields, and rain on the breeze on a hot day. Apple and pear blossoms. The hay just cut. The mix of odors in the barn when the sunlight was shafting through the cracks in the boards, heating everything up.
~ Jane Smiley
And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms, and were waving their arms gently above the children's heads. 
~ Oscar Wilde
His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul, and Desire had come to meet it on the way.
~ Oscar Wilde
Expression is as necessary to me as leaf and blossoms are to the black branches of the trees that show themselves above the prison walls and are so restless in the wind. Between my art and the world there is now a wide gulf, but between art and myself there is none. I hope at least that there is none.
~ Oscar Wilde
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.
~ Christina Rossetti
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Then a few more days and boom, green is everywhere and spring has come to Manhattan and in Central Park you see blossoms and petals unfolding and the air smells of nostalgia and you want to kill yourself. Why? Because it's too beautiful to handle; the pineal gland secretes Unspeakable Melancholy Juice, and you don't know where to put all those feelings that are stampeding inside and God forbid at that point your love life is not going too well. Get the revolver.
~ Woody Allen
Palace women like blossoms filled springtime galleries here. There's nothing left now--only quail breaking into flight.
~ Li Bai
AMUSING MYSELF Facing my wine, I did not see the dusk, Falling blossoms have filled the folds of my clothes. Drunk, I rise and approach the moon in the stream, Birds are far off, people too are few.
~ Li Bai
The sounds of the tea being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window.
~ Unknown