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.

Celia Thaxter

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Country
  • Poet
  • Him

• A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Anything

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poet
  • Survive
  • Can

• I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Kind
  • Poet

• I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Painter
  • Between
  • Abstract

• 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.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Respect
  • Inspired

• 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.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Single
  • Design
  • Flower

• I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Men
  • Flower

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Musician

• 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.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Smile

• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Sweet
  • Poet
  • Solitude

• She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

  

  John Dryden
  • She
  • Age
  • Cold

• I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Lost
  • Hand
  • Childhood

• 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.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Song

• The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Air
  • Flower
  • Rose

• One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Creativity
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• So when people ask Galbraith, why is the change in marijuana laws important to the people of this country, because it returns to the people the right to plant a seed in God's earth and consume the green natural plant that comes up out of it.

  

  Gatewood Galbraith
  • Earth
  • Plant
  • Marijuana

• It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Knowledge
  • Salvation
  • Gives

• Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Flower
  • Musician
  • Poet