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I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn__ have to write at all anymore if I didn__ want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don__ know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they__e through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn__ ask to be flowers and I didn__ ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five_I had a shutting-off feeling_that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

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The pageant of the river bank had marched steadily along, unfolding itself in scene-pictures that succeeded itself in stately procession. Purple loosestrife arrived early, shaking luxuriant locks along the edge of the mirror whence its own face laughed back at it. Willow-herb, tender and wistful, like a pink sunset-cloud was not slow to follow. Comfrey, the purple hand-in-hand with the white, crept forth to take its place in the line; and at last one morning the diffident and delaying dog-rose stepped delicately on the stage, and one knew, as if string music has announced it in stately chords that strayed into a gavotte, that June at last was here. One member of the company was still awaited; the shepherd-boy for the nymphs to woo, the knight for whom the ladies waited at the window, the prince that was to kiss the sleeping summer back to life and love. But when meadow-sweet, debonair and odorous in amber jerkin, moved graciously to his place in the group, then the play was ready to begin.

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Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Well, think about it for a minute. A guy tells you that he loves you and then turns around and buys you flowers_or worse, tells you that he loves you with flowers. Cut flowers die. They die in a few days after being cut_and this is what you guys choose to use as proof of your love? Something that dies in a few days? To me it seems like foreshadowing or something, like your basically saying that our love is beautiful but only for a limited time and then it will wither away to nothing like your flowers.

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Jennifer Snyder

The Unloved

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There has fallen a splendid tearFrom the passion-flower at the gate.She is coming, my dove, my dear;She is coming, my life, my fate.The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"And the lily whispers, "I wait."She is coming, my own, my sweet;Were it ever so airy a tread,My heart would hear her and beat,Were it earth in an earthy bed;My dust would hear her and beat,Had I lain for a century dead,Would start and tremble under her feet,And blossom in purple and red.