"A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight."

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Source : Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Kay Ryan

#Flower Quotes #Color Quotes #Hue Quotes

“Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.”
“The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.”
“Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...”
“Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life.”
“Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.”
“Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.”
“The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.”
“Time is chasing after all of us.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mrs. Snow". "Finding Neverland", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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