flower

melancholy

is, in every instance, a soul blossoming in nature.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gerard de Nerval

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.

is a dreadful disease that makes us see things as they are.

Melancholy is a dreadful disease that makes us see things as they are.

is everything --- the first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile.