Daffodil Quotes

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

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Pleasure, Thousand

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• Daffodils,
  That come before the swallow dares, and take
  The winds of March with beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Wind

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 116

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• Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

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• Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Garden, Pleasure

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

  Michaela DePrince

  Flower, Differences, Fields

  "Four Young Ballerinas Celebrate Dancers Of Color Who Inspire Them" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2017.

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• 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.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life, Spring, Sunshine

  Madeleine L'Engle (1981). “Camilla”, Doubleday

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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.

  Alain de Botton

  Nice, Sunset, Bits

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• Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Dancing, Fluttering

  'I wandered lonely as a cloud' (1807).

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• Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Design, Said, Asks

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• O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.62

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• 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

  Gold, Doe, Glitter

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• If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

  Adam Duritz

  Pain, Wraps, Ifs

  "Song: Goodnight Elisabeth (Recovering the Satellites)". October 15, 1996.

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• I 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 Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Nature, Spring

  "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1

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• I have seen the Lady April bringing
  the daffodils,
  Bringing the springing grass and the
  soft warm April rain.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Rain, April

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• It is not raining to me,
  It's raining daffodils;
  In every dimpled drop I see
  Wild flowers on distant hills.

  Robert Loveman

  Rain, Flower, Rivers

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• Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

  Philip Larkin

  Poetry, Wordsworth, Deprivation

  Reply to question "Do you think people go around feeling they haven't got out of life what life has to offer?"- Required Writing (1983) p. 47

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• Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

  Philip Larkin

  Depression, Wordsworth

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• Hark, I hear a robin calling!
  List, the wind is from the south!
  And the orchard-bloom is falling
  Sweet as kisses on the mouth.
  
  In the dreamy vale of beeches
  Fair and faint is woven mist,
  And the river's orient reaches
  Are the palest amethyst.
  
  Every limpid brook is singing
  Of the lure of April days;
  Every piney glen is ringing
  With the maddest roundelays.
  
  Come and let us seek together
  Springtime lore of daffodils,
  Giving to the golden weather
  Greeting on the sun-warm hills.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)”, p.6137, Delphi Classics

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• Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Ballet, Saws

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

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• Today is the day when bold kites fly,
  When cumulus clouds roar across the sky.
  When robins return, when children cheer,
  When light rain beckons spring to appear.
  
  Today is the day when daffodils bloom,
  Which children pick to fill the room,
  Today is the day when grasses green,
  When leaves burst forth for spring to be seen.

  Robert McCracken

  Cheer, Children, Spring

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• 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.

  Don McLean

  Summer, Song, Eye

  Song: Vincent

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• Fair daffodils, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon:
  As yet the early-rising sun
  Has not attained his noon.

  Robert Herrick

  Haste, Noon, Rising

  "To Daffodils" l. 1 (1648)

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• I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Jumping, Boots, Forests

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• Gay as a daffodil.

  Freddie Mercury

  Gay, Dear

  New Musical Express Magazine, March 12, 1974.

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• I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Stones, Saws

  "Grasmere Journal," 15 Apr. 1802 SeeWilliamWordsworth 25

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