29 Quotes by Celia Thaxter

There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.

When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.

One golden day redeems a weary year.

Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?

To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.

Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.