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Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him...Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.
susan kay— Christine Daae (p. 433)
My heart is a flower, budding, blooming, dripping dew, dropping petals all over the place, making a big hopeless mess, stinking things up, waiting for someone to come flying over and suck the pollen out of me. Suck me dry. 'Til I wilt. 'Til I am nothing. 'Til next spring.
john s. hall— "My Heart Is a Flower"
Say not, "I have found the truth ," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
— Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet (1923)
The moth's kiss, first! Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed Its petals up.
Robert Browning— 1842 Dramatic Lyrics,'In a Gondola'.
The cowboys had lived for months under the great bowl of the sky, and yet the Montana skies seemed deeper than the skies of Texas or Nebraska. Their depth and blueness robbed even the sun of its harsh forceit seemed smaller, in the vastness, and the whole sky no longer turned white at noon as it had in the lower plains. Always, somewhere to the north, there was a swath of blueness, with white cloads floating in it like petals in a pond.
Larry McMurtry— 1985 Lonesome Dove, ch.93.
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably inthe circuits of a digital computeror thegears of a cycle transmission ashe does at thetop of a mountainor in the petals of a flower.
— 1974 Zen and theArt of Motorcycle Maintenance, pt.1, ch.1.
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
Tennyson— 1832 Poems,'The Lotos-Eaters', Choric Song, stanza1, l.46-51.
That soul is on the certain path toward light which, sincerely desiring the light, constantly submits to the claims of the light as they are made known. That soul cannot stay in darkness, any more than a flower opening its petals broadly to the sun can stay in shadow.
wayland hoyt— P. 389. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
In the secret space of dreams, Where I dreaming lay amazed, When the secrets all are told, And the petals all unfold. When there was no dream of mine, You dreamed of me
robert hunter— "Attics of My Life"
I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away — for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?
sara teasdale— Old Tunes
The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
Henry David Thoreau— January 5, 1856
I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.
john evelyn barlas— XLVI. "I saw thee in a vision of the night"
Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.
Robert Browning— "In a Gondola", line 49 (1842).
“I heard it clearly, and so did everyone else, I’ll be bound. Your name, dear, not mine. I am very popular. You, it seems, are not.” “What a surprise.” He dropped petals on the floor. “And what a good thing I don’t care.” “How nice for you that you don’t have to.” “Meaning,” he drawled, “that you do.” “Just so.”
ellen kushner— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 392)
In rose with petals soft as air I bind for you the tides and fire the death that lives within the flower, oh, gladly love, for you I bear.
kathleen raine— Poem Envoi
A complete flower ( manoecious ) has both both male and female parts, and only one parent is needed if the plant is self-fruitful or can polinate itself....The complete flower contains four main parts: sepals , petals , staments, and pistils .
— Carroll Shry & Edward Reiley, in Introductory Horticulture, p.33
The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals in our speech.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., To My Readers, Stanza 11.
I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.
— XLVI. "I saw thee in a vision of the night"
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
bret harte— Bret Harte, The Mountain Heart's Ease.
The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.
james montgomery— James Montgomery, On Planting a Tulip-Root.
“I heard it clearly, and so did everyone else, I’ll be bound. Your name, dear, not mine. I am very popular. You, it seems, are not.” “What a surprise.” He dropped petals on the floor. “And what a good thing I don’t care.” “How nice for you that you don’t have to.” “Meaning,” he drawled, “that you do.” “Just so.”
— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 392) (The Privilege of the Sword (2006))
These two sets of triangles are superimposed to show the union of the masculine and feminine aspects of your nature. When united they make the eight lotus petals of the yantra. Four gates or doors called bhupara, surround these triangles representing the gates of the consciousness to the deeper mysteries beyond.
— In "Crossing the Healing Zone: From Illness to Wellness", p.160
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being.' God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.
— Alexander Maclaren, p. 559. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Lo, sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow, White petals from the flowers that grow In the cold atmosphere.
— George W. Bungay, The Artists of the Air.
Stone lotus cups, with petals dipped in sand.
jean ingelow— Jean Ingelow, Gladys and her Island, line 460.
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough.
— 1916 Lustra,'In a Station of the Metro'.
petals floating by, Drift through my woman’s hand, As she remembers me.
david brin— Chapter 103 (p. 418)
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive the Truth. And first we must know that each of the petals has eighty-four thousand veins and that each vein gives eighty-four thousand lights.
yukio mishima— "The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love" in Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories (1966), p. 61
