Celia Thaxter Quotes
I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill Such a bright gold under my windowsill! Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still? Bless me! It's a daffodil!
When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.
Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.
When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.
Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done.
As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.
The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.
The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.
Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.
Look to the East where up the lucid sky The morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.