If You Saw a Heat Wave, Would You Wave Back?

"In summer, the song sings itself"  William Carlos Williams
(Flowers by Ka Vang)

"Summer's lease has all too short a date."
-  William Shakespeare  
(Hibiscus at Country Bloomers)

Flowers are without hope.  Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin  (Flowers by Natalie)

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.  ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat   
(Hydrangea at Morningwood)

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox   (flowers by Yang Vang)

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore    (flowers by Kelly Lor)

Instead of a theme...this week you can win a gift certificate to the market by identifying the author of the title.  First two correct entries win; stop by the Information Tent or send your contact information when you post the answer.