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Rose Quotes - Page 33

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.110, Crossing Press

Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1884). “Selections from the Poetical Works of A.C. Swinburne”, New York, Crowell

Oh, this is the joy of the rose; That it blows, And goes.

Willa Cather (1990). “April Twilights (1903): Poems”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.200, Macmillan

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1998). “Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew”, The Eighth Mountain Press

Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.

Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.189, Faber & Faber

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.103, Hamilton Books

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.5224, e-artnow