Lovely holiday card quote/poem for my small plant business
October 26, 2020 11:41 AM   Subscribe

Inspired by this question, what are your favorite non-religious short poems, quotes or otherwise lovely texts to print on my holiday cards I send each year to my (B2B) customers? My business is related to plants so bonus points for something plant-ish.

I liked the original poster's I Heard a Bird Sing by Oliver Herford, but I'm don't particularly feel like acknowledging the horribleness of 2020 on my card, so cheerful & light is also fine for me.
posted by PardonMyFrench to Writing & Language (4 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
"Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer."

Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden
posted by JanetLand at 1:26 PM on October 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


Maybe a Lady Bird Johnson quote?

“My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth.“

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”
posted by breakfasterandslower at 10:19 PM on October 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


I used this one several decades ago:

‘At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.’

Love’s Labours Lost
posted by tmdonahue at 6:50 AM on October 27, 2020


Unseen Buds
by Walt Whitman

Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well,
Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch,
Germinal, exquisite, in delicate lace, microscopic, unborn,
Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, compact, sleeping;
Billions of billions, and trillions of trillions of them waiting,
(On earth and in the sea - the universe - the stars there in the heavens,)
Urging slowly, surely forward, forming endless,
And waiting ever more, forever more behind.
posted by gudrun at 6:41 AM on October 28, 2020


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