Chrysanthemums Quotes

• I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Flower, Soul, Ornaments

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.134, Profile Books

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• Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sarcastic, Humorous, Looks

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• Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Flower, Autumn, Years

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1912). “Hours of Gladness”

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• A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.

  William J. Johnston

  Names, Luck, Would Be

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• Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
  Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gilded, Merchandise, Gaudy

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• I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Horas

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). "El libro de la inquietud: Por Bernardo Soares, auxiliar de contabilidad en la ciudad de Lisboa"

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• Un cultivador de crisantemos esperaba la visita del emperador, que venía a disfrutar de sus flores, de las que había cientos en flor. El cultivador seleccionó un magnífico espécimen y cortó todos los demás, dejando esta flor perfecta. El emperador llegó y se sentó durante varias horas a contemplar tranquilamente esta hermosa flor, dejándose llevar por su belleza. ¿Se imagina estar tan absorto en la contemplación de una flor que todo lo demás pase a un segundo plano?

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Flower

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• In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color

  Yosa Buson

  Fall, Light, Color

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• The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

  Robert Fortune

  Dwarves, Tree, Chinese

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.143

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• Era un día tan diferente de los demás como los perros lo son de los gatos y ambos de los crisantemos o de los maremotos o de la escarlatina.

  John Steinbeck

  Perro, Gato, Diferente

  John Steinbeck (2008). "El invierno de nuestro descontento", p.201, Penguin

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• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Lilies, Made

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 140, 1982.

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• La fragancia astringente de los crisantemos llega
  Cada año para disimular el mecanismo del tintineo
  de máquina dentro de máquina dentro de máquina.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Years, Machines

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.157, Vintage

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• Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

  Patricia Moyes

  Country, Autumn, Garden

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• The autumn breeze rises on the shore at Fukiage- and those white chrysanthemums are they flowers? or not? or only breakers on the beach?

  Sugawara no Michizane

  Beach, Flower, Fall

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• She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You can't ignore orange things. She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life. She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch. Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up. September never spoke to the dog again — on principle.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mother, Dog, Halloween

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.16, Macmillan

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• La brisa sabe a cáscara de manzana. El aire está lleno de olores para sentir: fruta madura, balones viejos, cepillo ardiendo, libros nuevos, gomas de borrar, tiza y cosas así. La abeja, su colmena, zumbido bien meloso, Y madre corta crisantemos. Como platos lavados con espuma, los días se pulen con una bruma matutina.

  John Updike

  Fútbol, Madre, Mañana

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• We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...]

  Jean Plaidy

  Country, Queens, Winter

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• You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

  Christopher Paolini

  Fire, Names, Imagination

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2259, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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