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Wild Roses Quotes

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

Stephen King
Color, Wild Roses, Light

In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.

Francis Turner Palgrave
Autumn, Wild Roses, Hands
Francis Turner Palgrave (1871). “Lyrical Poems”, p.75

THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.

Wendell Berry
Blessed, Heart, Wild Roses

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

Annie Dillard
Fall, Two, Wild Roses
Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.53, Canongate Books

Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.

Hal Borland
Wild Roses, Orange, Here And There

A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Summer, Wild Roses, Roof
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.283

The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.

Cathleen Schine
Sweet, Morning, Wild Roses

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