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Top 25 Celia Thaxter Quotes (2025 Update)

Celia Thaxter Quote: “There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.”

1. “There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter Quote: “To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.”

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

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.”

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

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter Quote: “One golden day redeems a weary year.”

6. “One golden day redeems a weary year.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “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?”

7. “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?”

— Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter Quote: “Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.”

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

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter Quote: “When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.”

10. “When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception...”

11. “The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception...”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.”

12. “As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.”

13. “As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.”

14. “He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.”

— Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter Quote: “Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I.”

15. “Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.”

16. “Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.”

17. “No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.”

18. “Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.”

19. “The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.”

20. “The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely my roses and lillies and the rest for their winter sleep beneath the snow, where I never forget them, but ever dream of their wakening in happy summers yet to be.”

21. “Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely my roses and lillies and the rest for their winter sleep beneath the snow, where I never forget them, but ever dream of their wakening in happy summers yet to be.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.”

22. “Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.”

23. “It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter’s sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.”

24. “O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter’s sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.”

— Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter Quote: “Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.”

25. “Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.”

— Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter Quote: “So deeply is the gardener’s instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes.”

26. “So deeply is the gardener’s instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes.”

— Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter Quote: “Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.”

27. “Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.”

28. “It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.”

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Celia Thaxter Quote: “I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.”

29. “I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.”

— Celia Thaxter

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