“I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads,
then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
♥
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
Flowers
Love not.
Love not! love not! ye hopeless sons of clay;
Hope’s gayest wreaths are made of earthly flowers—
Things that are made to fade and fall away,
Ere they have blossomed for a few short hours.
Water
The water understands
Civilization well;
It wets my foot, but prettily,
It chills my life, but wittily,
It is not disconcerted,
It is not broken-hearted:
Well used, it decketh joy,
Adorneth, doubleth joy:
Ill used, it will destroy,
In perfect time and measure
With a face of golden pleasure
Elegantly destroy.
– by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration”. — D.H. Lawrence
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
-Sigmund Freud
Henri Matisse – video by Philip Scott Johnson
Music – Arabesque No. 1 in E Major composed by Claude Debussy
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
– Henri Matisse
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
– Walt Whitman
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days
— three such days with you I could fill with more delight
than fifty common years could ever contain.” ― John Keats
“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.”
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin.
Maverick Mist 