Quotations from Virginia Woolf, often (but not always) linked to flowers, usually inspired by what is in bloom, and accompanied by my photos and artwork or that of friends. If a photo is not attributed, I took it. (Quotations are from the standard American editions: mostly the annotated Harcourt Brace series edited by Mark Hussey)
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Proud Sunflowers: August 27, 2015
Photo courtesy of Mark Charney
[L]ilies, sacerdotal,
ecclesiastical; flowers with prim cardboard collars tinged apricot and amber,
all gently incline their heads to the breeze—all, with the exception of the
heavy sunflower, who proudly acknowledges the
sun at midday and perhaps at midnight rebuffs the moon. There they stand; and
it is of these, the stillest, the most self-sufficient of all things that human
beings have made companions; these that symbolise their passions, decorate
their festivals, and lie (as if they knew sorrow) upon the pillows of
the dead.
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