Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
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Seek to understand the root. - It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
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I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
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I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.
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The situation Abraham Lincoln faced was unique. In his view, the United States was threatened with destruction, ruin, overthrow, perishing - all words that he used - which is not the case for any other president, including the current one - Barack Obama.
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"Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
