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“Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.”
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“It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.”
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“I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106
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“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.”
Source : Adriana Trigiani (2009). “Very Valentine”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
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“May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.88, Cambridge University Press
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“I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.”
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“Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.”
Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA
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“Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.”
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“So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.”
Source : Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”
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“Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.”
