A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.