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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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
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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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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
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The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
