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  • Daisy and Lily, Lazy and silly, Walk by the shore of the wan grass sea, Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree.

    - Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
      Fa c° ade 'Valse'.

  • Seethat gold Cadillac down the street? That's the color I want those handrails.Gold.Cadillac Gold. Not yellow like a daisy.

    - Donald Trump
    Of the handrails in Manhattan'sTrumpTower. Quoted by Paul Trachtman in the Smithsonian, Mar1995, reviewing Alexander TherouxThe Primary Colors.

  • With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

    -William Wordsworth
      'To the Daisy', stanza1 (published1807).

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