Flowery Quotations

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.

From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

People will enjoy it. It was written in the 1980s, so it uses everyday language and a contemporary setting. It isn't as heavy as some farces, which speak in flowery verse. There are some hilarious moments and interesting characters.

I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.

Time will tell (how great it was), but this season not only established our high school as a legitimate football program in Hall County and the region, but people in the state have started talking about Flowery Branch football. Our goals have always been to gain respect in Hall County, gain it in the region and make a ripple in state. And this year we did that.

Flowery Branch played hard. But we can't lose our grip like that on the game.

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.

The most moving thing in a speech is always the logic. It is never flowery and flourishes. It is not sentimental exhortation, it is never the faux poetry we're all subjected to these days.

That period was a very flowery one for me. It was the beginning of something, of a movement you might say. I was lucky enough to be there.

It's been a tough start and I think we regressed the last couple of weeks, ... But we also played two great teams the last two weeks and that may have had something to do with it. Flowery Branch is playing perhaps the best of anyone right now so it doesn't get any easier. But we always go into every game thinking we can win and we will against Flowery Branch.

I'm really trying not to go off the deep end bragging about this guy. I'd love to tell you the flowery things I'm thinking, but common sense tells me I shouldn't go down that road.

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

Hide me from day's garish eye / While the bee with honied thigh / That at her flowery work doth sing.