Writer Sylvia Plath’s husband, the English poet Ted Hughes, chose these words for his suicidal wife’s gravestone: "Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted."
A friend's mother adored gardening and poetry. So her family decided to engrave her bronze gravestone with the final words in William Wadsworth's "Daffodils": "And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils."