Rose Quotes

God's Warrior · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:37 am Post subject:

Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.
Walter de La Mare

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

I cast my heart into my rhymes,
That you, in the dim coming times,
May know how my heart went with them
After the red-rose-bordered hem.
William Butler Yeats

Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled.
Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring
The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
William Butler Yeats

A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
William Carlos Williams

It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.
William Carlos Williams

God's Warrior · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:46 am Post subject:

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
John Milton

Thus with the year
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.
John Milton

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away,
Like a child at play.
Johnny Mercer

Yet, O thou beautiful rose!
Queen rose so fair and sweet.
What were lover or crown to thee,
without the clay at thy feet?
Julia C R Dorr

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. Kahlil Gibran

A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Lytton

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby.

Go pretty rose, go to my fair,
Go tell her all I fain would dare,
Tell her of hope; tell her of spring,
Tell her of all I fain would sing,
Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing.
Michael Beverly

The perfume of roses are like exquisite chords of music composed of many odor notes harmoniously blended.
N F Miller

It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses.
Nataniel Parker Willis

From the thorn bush comes forth the rose.
Old Jewish Proverb

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes