„The flower,’ said Bernard, ‘the red carnation that stood in the vase on the table of the restaurant when we dined together with Percival, is become a six-sided flower; made of six lives.“

— Virginia Woolf

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„I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases…..“
— Pablo Neruda
„Beauty doesn't have to beanything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto?“
— Douglas Adams
„I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.“
— Claude Monet
„Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.“
— Hans Christian Andersen
„I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too—And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness…“
— Emily Dickinson