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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• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• 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

• Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Dark

• The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Universe
  • Seriously
  • Take It

• Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light children up, that children will recognize. Words that inspire and comfort. Words that challenge yet don't patronize. Words that, well, mean something to them.

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • Children
  • Challenge
  • Something

• In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

  

  Daniel B. Wallace
  • Spiritual
  • Academic
  • Pursue

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

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Flower
  • Musician
  • Poet