The center of flowers, the heart of blossoms, the stamens, filaments, the place of pollen, the sacred holy of holies to pollinators, a place of sweetness, of reproduction and unfolding beauty, of floral life-force, sweet, sensual, supremely , quintessentially personifying grace and beauty

“As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers seek teachings everywhere. Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze seek seclusion to digest all that you have gathered. Like a mad one beyond all limits go where you please and live like a lion completely free of all fear.” -dzogchen tantra

''Point is, what's so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There's a certain orchid look exactly like a certain insect so the insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soul mate, and wants nothing more than to make love to it. And after the insect flies off, spots another soul-mate flower and makes love to it, thus pollinating it. And neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking. I mean, how could they know that because of their little dance the world lives? But it does. By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens. In this sense they show us how to live - how the only barometer you have is your heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way.''  ~from the screenplay to "Adaptation" by Charlie Kaufman.

''Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail." ~Theodore Dreiser

“There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.
It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.” ~ Friedrich Nietzche

''Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn, the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting, cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless." ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba 

“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“With flowers the sex is up-front and x-rated.” Harold Davis

''The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.''  ~Basho

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.  It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.  ~ Jean Giraudoux

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words.  They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.  ~Lydia M. Child