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O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil! -- Jean Ingelow
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. -- Philip Larkin
Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. -- William Wordsworth
one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few. -- William Wordsworth
It is not raining to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills. -- Robert Loveman
Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils. -- Michaela DePrince
I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin. -- Rufus Wainwright
Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty. -- William Shakespeare
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. -- Cyril Connolly
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days. -- Alain de Botton
Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith. -- Barbara Holland
You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability. -- Lori Borgman
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. -- William Wordsworth
There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal. -- Oscar Wilde
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies. -- Leigh Hunt
What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying -- Virginia Woolf
One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas. -- Derek Jarman
It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the owl call to-whoo! Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too; Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb, So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time. -- Clinton Scollard
I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise. -- Cassandra Danz
When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. -- William Shakespeare
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness ... -- Dorothy Wordsworth
I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear! -- Freddie Mercury
I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil. -- Tamora Pierce
The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue. -- Marian McPartland
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why. -- Hugh Newell Jacobsen
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally. -- Stella Adler
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! -- Celia Thaxter
Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines. -- John Keats
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden. -- Leo Buscaglia

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