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• 'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

  Lewis Carroll

  Talking, Wish, Said

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.

  Oswald Chambers

  Stars, People, Joy

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.202, Discovery House

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• I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

  Andrew Marvell

  Flower, Garden, Rose

  'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn' (1681) l. 71

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• The calla lilies are in bloom again.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Callas

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Memories, Flower, Wedding Day

  "Fictional character: Terry Randall". Stage Door, www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

  Bayard Taylor

  Stars, Moon, Night

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.311

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• O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Flower, Heart

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• All life is sacred. Since life is an affirmation of the Creator, I shall live on, even when I am gone. In trailing clouds of glory shall I return to my Creator only to find that I had never really left. I shall walk among the lilies of the field and leave my trail in stardust in the sky.

  John Harricharan

  Grieving, Clouds, Sky

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  As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Daughter, Honesty, Thorns

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• There has fallen a splendid tear
  From the passion-flower at the gate.
  She is coming, my dove, my dear;
  She is coming, my life, my fate;
  The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
  And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
  The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;"
  And the lily whispers, "I wait."

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Flower, Passion

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

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• There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dust, Evolution, Unfolding

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, Water Lily, Painting

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• A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

  Edwin Arnold

  Rain, Rivers, Water

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• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

  William Shakespeare

  Gold, Excess, Hue

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Positivity, Negativity, Negative

  "Bergman talks of his dreams and demons in rare interview". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

  William Sharp

  Women, Apples, Sea

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1912). “Selected Writings”

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• I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

  Bliss Carman

  Feet, Untamed, Ledges

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

  Carlos Santana

  Spiritual, Baby, Flower

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• The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

  Nathalia Crane

  Rose, Understanding, World

  Nathalia Crane (1928). “Venus Invisible: And Other Poems”

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• Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

  Christina Rossetti

  Fields, Mortality, Leafs

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.266, Delphi Classics

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• A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Rain, Dirty

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• So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.

  Ramakrishna

  Faith, Peace, Flower

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• Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

  Anne Sexton

  Born, Mailboxes, Rejoice

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Jealousy, War, Rose

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What's the point of fighting the dollars
  when all you need is a warm bed?
  When the dog barks you let him in.
  All we need is someone to let us in.
  And one other thing:
  to consider the lilies in the field.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Dog, Fighting

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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