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To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent myself I think, As long as you don't overdue the pink. -- Ruth Pitter
Jesus Christ's claim of divinity is the most serious claim anyone ever made. Everything about Christianity hinges on His carnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. That's what Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter are all about. -- Luis Palau
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades. -- Alexander Pope
And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink. -- Rupert Brooke
My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year. -- Josh Turner
I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum. -- Lauren Willig
Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark. -- Pablo Neruda
If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals... -- Paul Weller
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. -- Francis Bacon
Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell. -- Matthew Arnold
Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards. -- William Shakespeare
I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. -- Pablo Neruda

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