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• Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hair, Names, Burning

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• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Funny, Wall, Flower

  Speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California. "The Event Makers I've Known". Book by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161, 2012.

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Spiritual

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• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
  Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
  Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
  The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Air, Glowing

  'The Sensitive Plant' (1820) pt. 1, l. 29

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• There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart.

  Rumi

  Falling In Love, Heart, Sky

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Real Friends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.147, Reprint Services Corporation

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• You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

  Thomas Moore

  May, Vases, Scent

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Farewell!-but whenever'

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• Smiles are to people as sunshine is to the roses.

  Tom Black

  Sunshine, People

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• The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
  For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Looks

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 54.

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• Loveliest of lovely things are they,
  On earth, that soonest pass away.
  The rose that lives its little hour
  Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Love, Life, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Scene At The Banks Of The Hudson”

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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  Salvador Dali

  Clever, Flower, Men

  Preface to Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1968)

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• Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.
  For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Air

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Flower, Frost

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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• The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Marriage, Chocolate

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• 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

  Flower, Heart, Hem

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.140, Penguin

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• A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Air, Mind

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• And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

  Marie Antoinette

  Love, Flower, Bed Of Roses

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• If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Flower, Miracle, Mind

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• No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mistake, Mean, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2015

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• I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

  Jon English

  Heart, Cups, Youth

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• Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

  Tupac Shakur

  Long, Grew, Concrete

  "The Rose that Grew from Concrete".

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• Gather the roses of life today.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Today

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