„And Ezra Pound and T. S. EliotFighting in the captain’s towerWhile calypso singers laugh at themAnd fishermen hold flowers…“

— Bob Dylan

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„Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„The earth laughs in flowers.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„If they (children) smash, the flower vase assumes a smilewhile turning into pieces.For a chance to be spilled by their hands,anything they hold gets spilled itself full of happiness.For a chance to play with them,water forgets about its own colourlessness.“
— Suman Pokhrel
„I turned to Thalia. ‘I’ll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?’She sighed. ‘Fine. Let’s go catch this jerk.“
— Rick Riordan
„concerning this selfstyled world's greatest and most generous literary figure: who had just arrived in our nation's capitol, attired in half a GI uniform and ready to be hanged as a traitor by the only country which ever made even a pretense of fighting for freedom of speechRe Ezra Pound — poetry happens to be an art; and artists happen to be human beings.“
— E.E. Cummings