“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”
“When we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body has something of this tremor at the moment when the mysterious hand of death reaches out to pluck a soul.”
“Flowers represent hope for us; but we do not represent hope for them! Let us keep the flowers in the soil; no plucking!”
“Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.”
“Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!”
“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”