Dahlias are considered one of the most elegant and enchanting flowers there is. But they’re more than just that.
To help you expand your perspective about dahlias, read through these inspirational dahlia flower quotes. This collection of quotes portrays how dahlias were seen by poets and how they have captivated contemporary writers.
Interesting Dahlia Quotes
Now that I have your face by heart, I look
Less at its features than its darkening frame
Where quince and melon, yellow as young flame,
Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd’s crook. — Louise Bogan
Nothing, it seemed, could survive the flood, the profusion of darkness which creeping in at keyholes and crevices, stole round window blinds, came into bedrooms, swallowed up here a jug and basin, there a bowl of red and yellow dahlias, there the sharp edges and firm bulk of a chest of drawers. — Virginia Woolf
He walked out into a different city, one that was perfumed by the last dahlias of June, and onto a street out of his youth, where the shadowy widows from five o’clock Mass were filing by. — Gabriel García Márquez
Nope. I like flowers as much as the next woman, but I can’t tell a dahlia from a daisy. — Julia Spencer-Fleming
The dahlias are no longer in stem, and frost has withered the chrysanthemums, but the air smells divine, like old leaves and wet bark, and ripe apples. — Lisa Kleypas
The largest dahlia in her mother’s collection was called the Dauntless, a bright red flower shaped like a pom-pom and the size of a dinner plate.
— Leslye Walton
Our interests were different, of course – tatting and dahlias have nothing in common, unless perhaps they are both interests of rather lonely people.
— Graham Greene
Bee had taken us there when we were children, and it was all rushing back: a magical world of hydrangeas, roses, and dahlias, and lemon shortbread cookies on Evelyn’s patio. — Sarah Jio
The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden full of dahlias and rusty rose-bushes encircled a ghostly summer-house of trellis-work that had once been white, surmounted by a wooden Cupid who had lost his bow and arrow but continued to take ineffectual aim. — Edith Wharton
The dahlias sleep in the empty silence.
Wait for the early owl. — T.S. Eliot
She is surrounded by stalks of dahlias, orange and yellow and pale red, with leaves so big you could write your life story on each one. She looks like a flower in the garden, just like her mother said. — Alice Hoffman
I looked at the garden, and watched white butterflies dance across dahlias and freesias and geraniums. There was a choir of color, singing for my attention, and it felt as though I were hearing it for the first time. — Joanna Cannon
Early nip of changeful autumn,
dahlias glimpsed through garden doves, — John Betjeman
The torchlit garden was redolent with the colors and scents of autumn… gold and copper foliage, thick borders of roses and dahlias, flowering grasses and beds of fresh mulch that made the air pleasantly pungent. — Lisa Kleypas
“The dahlias reminded me of your hair,” he said pensively. “That deep copper color. Only a little darker.” — Laura Kinsale
The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden full of dahlias and rusty rose-bushes encircled a ghostly summer-house of trellis-work that had once been white, surmounted by a wooden Cupid who had lost his bow and arrow but continued to take ineffectual aim. — Edith Wharton
The roses, dahlias, white Shasta daisies, black-eyed Susans, and marigolds would bloom from late spring to early fall. Leota could see it. She knew exactly. — Francine Rivers
I would pick up books that had been heavily documented on social media, only to find that the books themselves had a curatorial affect: beautiful descriptions of little substance, arranged in elegant vignettes—gestural text, the equivalent of a rumpled linen bedsheet or a bunch of dahlias placed just so. — Anna Wiener
Joe had always pretended indifference to flowers. He preferred fruit trees, herbs and vegetables, things to be picked and harvested, stored, dried, pickled, bottled, pulped, made into wine. But there were always flowers in his garden all thee same. Planted as if on an afterthought: dahlias, poppies, lavender, hollyhocks. — Joanne Harris
I have never married, I have always lived quietly, and, apart from my interest in dahlias, I have no hobby. For those reasons I found myself agreeably excited by my mother’s funeral. — Graham Greene
In August, the dahlia fields were so flush with color that the cloudy days seemed brighter, and in autumn the apple and pear orchards were woven through with ladders and littered with overflowing bushels. — Ellen Herrick
I ordered 20 pots to support my dahlia obsession. I already have many but, well, I have gone quite far this year. — Niamh Shields
Bought a $25 dahlia bulb because they promised blooms the size of dinner plates. I’ve become that person now. — Emily Shields
Inspirational Dahlia Flower Quotes
The flowers didn’t have to be dahlias and roses either, but just the weeds blooming in the fields, the daisies and the yarrow. — Wendell Berry
If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under a radiator. — W Beran Wolfe
Dahlias are the symbol of beauty, wealth and prosperity. Like attracts like. Dahlia attracts prosperity. — Amit Ray
Dahlias are hard to find, which is like a good woman, hard to find, but a treasure when you do. — Hank Garner
She sat a little apart and watched the autumnal flame of dahlias in the garden, and the dreaming, glamorous harbour of the September sunset.
— L.M. Montgomery
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. — William Allen White
Dahlia Flower Quotes
Dahlias were long bloomers (Nellie had even seen them survive an early frost) and signified an unbreakable commitment between two people. — Karma Brown
If poems had souls they would look like pink dahlias. — Beryl Dov
Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful!
We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earth
or we climb to the knife edge of the snow with the voices of
the dead dahlias. — Federico García Lorca
Plant a cactus dahlia and a marguerite bush side by side in rich mellow land for a season; they will both give noble return – generous wealth of blossom, splendid growth. — Ethel Turner
Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered — Arthur Hugh Clough
There truly aren’t enough words to describe the exquisiteness of dahlias. […] It’s little wonder that they represent dignity and elegance. — Heather Webber
A daffodil, a dahlia, and a daisy. In the language of flowers, a message of new beginnings, joy, and forever love. — Debora Geary
Elsie had insisted that was why dahlias were so enchanting. “Just as powerful as they are pretty. Like you, my sweet girl.” — Karma Brown
I will dig up my dahlias with a garden fork and take them inside where I will lay them out to dry, dirt and mud intact, so a protective skin forms on the outer layers of the tubers. […] In April I will move them to a warmer area to come back to life, and bring their eyes to the surface. — Viola Shipman
There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it’s too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it’s too late. — Henry Mitchell
August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple. – Jean Hersey
I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole. — Harry Graf Kessler
The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew. […] a garden of dahlias might be very interesting. — Helena Rutherfurd Ely
I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola. — Jane Garmey
For some reason Instagram has become convinced I love dahlias and is bombarding me with posts about dahlias when in truth I’m unbothered by them. I mean they’re fine, if someone gave me a dahlia I wouldn’t complain, but I honestly have no strong feeling on them vs other flowers. — Ruth Ware
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