The bud stands for all things,even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self blessing;though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on the brow of the flower, and retell it in words and in touch,it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self blessing.
~ Galway Kinnell (found in “Loving Kindness”, by Sharon Salzburg)