“One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.”
“Life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived. A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I’ve met.”
“Then my heart, with pleasure, fills and dances with the daffodils.”
“I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.”
“I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn’t be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.”
“I love spring flowers—daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.”
“Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring.”
“I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills. When all at once, I saw a crowd—a host of golden daffodils beside the lake beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
“I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness.”
“I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.”
“In time of daffodils who know the goal of living is to grow.”
“She had a beautiful laugh which was like rain water pouring over daffodils made from silver.”
“Ah, romance to me is spontaneity. It’s not diamond earrings; it’s a bunch of daffodils that’s freshly picked from the field.”
“So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing. So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see, so blithe and gay the humming-bird a-going from flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee.”
“Fair daffodils, we weep to see you haste away so soon. As yet the early-rising sun has not attained his noon.”
“It is not raining to me, it’s raining daffodils. In every dimpled drop, I see wildflowers on distant hills.”
“They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve toffee clouds, they breastfeed laughter.”
“Hundreds of thousands of daffodils, wild in this part of England, had taken over the old ruins and made a home for themselves. The view was gorgeous. The daffodils rolled in a yellow-dotted wave right up to the stream itself and splashed over onto the opposite bank, disappearing into the little wood there.”
“You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.”
“I have laughed more than daffodils and cried more than June.”
“The daffodils weren’t in soldierly rows. They bloomed in drifts and clumps. They must be wild.”
“Life’s a dog and then you die? No, no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next.”
“Daffodils are an optimistic flower, and foolproof.”
“Those born under Pacific Northwest skies are like daffodils—they can achieve beauty only after a long, cold sulk in the rain.”
