“The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour”
Oscar Wilde
“LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!"It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.”
Jean Paul Richter
“Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.”
Edna Ferber
“That plant on our state flag is not a marijuana plant but a sunflower.”
Dan Monnat
“She laughed out loud and explained that was a sunflower.”
“I don't see the big flocks of pigeons gathering around the sunflower fields yet as the pips are not developed.”
Jim Cameron
