Hyacinths Quotes

• If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Two, Soul, Stores

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “If Thou Of Fortune Be Bereft”

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• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Literature, Synthesis

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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• I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Spring, Flower, Essence

  "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Children, Knowledge, Grows

  'Toys of Peace and Other Papers' (1919) 'Hyacinth'

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• Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

  Sharon Creech

  Men, Soul, Body

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• You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

  T. S. Eliot

  Girl, Heart, Eye

  T.S. Eliot “My Own Wasteland”, Lisa Lee

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• If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

  Herodotus

  Health, Two, Soul

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• Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

  Edgar Quinet

  Time, Peace, Flower

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• Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

  James Montgomery

  Eye, Blue, Rich

  James Montgomery (1860). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: In Six Volumes. Greenland ; Miscellaneous poems ; Narratives ; Translations from Dante”, p.225

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• China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.

  Constance Spry

  Fire, Tea, Afternoon

  Constance Spry (1953). “A Constance Spry Anthology”

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• People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

  Eudora Welty

  People, Onions, Layers

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• down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

  Homer

  Curls, Brows, Ran

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.248, Penguin

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• As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Heart, Orchids

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Apr 05, 2012

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• And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

  Leonard Cohen

  Music, Yield, Rivers

  Song: Take This Waltz, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• We say
  This changes and that changes. Thus the constant
  Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths
  Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause
  In a universe of inconstancy.

  Wallace Stevens

  Change, Girl, Violet

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.285, Vintage

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• The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Spring, Flower, Garden

  Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

  Donna Tartt

  Girl, Boys, Hair

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• And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? - who understand that things are only worth what you're willing to give up for them.

  Rick Elice

  Dog, Giving Up, Thinking

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• Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” “Hyacinth.” “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Expression, Voice

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• The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

  James Lee

  Spring, Air, Water

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• The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to recover.

  Julia Quinn

  Years, Twelve, Months

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.

  Julia Quinn

  Nice, Kissing, Thinking

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• Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Father, Real, Reflection

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• Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month.” “Such tenderness for your youngest child,” Hyacinth muttered. “It quite undoes me.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Men, Tears

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.

  Julia Quinn

  Cat, Athlete, Helping

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