“The earth laughs in flowers.”
“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”
“Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery”
“You leave behind your fine poems.You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into the Light, O Quechomitl, you leave behind the flowers and the singing and the earth. Safe journey, O friend.”
“People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.”
“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”