“- No seed ever sees the flower.”
“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ”
“The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.”
“Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.”
“It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.”
“And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.”