Rose Quotes - Page 19
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.218, Anchor
Winfield Townley Scott (1967). “New and selected poems”
Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 54.
You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.
Walter Benjamin (2006). “On Hashish”, p.22, Harvard University Press
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.411, Wordsworth Editions
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.106, Faber & Faber
Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.252
Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan
Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Seed Market”
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”
Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”