A Flower
“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Whence comes the Innovator’s authority to pick and choose?”
– C. S. Lewis
“Beneath the rule of men entirely great / The pen is mightier than the sword.”
– Richelieu; Or, the Conspiracy II. 2.