A votary of the Blue Flower

I have been taken by this allusion ever since reading it in Surprised by Joy (and I do like that C.S. Lewis will write such lovely things, and either assume people will understand or that they can find it out for themselves if they don’t, which never did anybody any harm). You can read the original reference in an extract from Novalis of the dream of the blue flower here, or a further explanation of the concept and Lewis’s use of it in this post from the Jolly Blogger, which I very conveniently came across. (And perhaps German Romanticism shall be my next venture, as I like that too.)

I have also always been quite taken with blue flowers, because I love blue, and I love flowers, and flowers in blue are not so common.

So I hereby declare myself, for good or ill, a votary of the Blue Flower and blue flowers.

Two of my particularly favourite blue flowers are blue star and forget-me-nots – both sweet, wild and rambling, unassuming little blue flowers.

Pictures from:

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