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• There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.

  Haruki Murakami

  Loneliness, Animal, Moon

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• The rose is a rose, And was always a rose.
  But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Apples, Theory

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Sweet

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249

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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Procrastination, Garden

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.

  Sylvia Plath

  Virgins, Pure

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• It was not in the winter
  Our loving lot was cast!
  It was the time of roses,
  We plucked them as we passed!

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Winter, Casts

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.252

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• Oh, no man knows
  Through what wild centuries
  Roves back the rose.

  Walter de La Mare

  Flower, Men, Century

  The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "All That's Past"

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• If love were what the rose is,
  And I were like the leaf,
  Our lives would grow together
  In sad or singing weather.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

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• The sweetest flower that blows,
  I give you as we part.
  For you it is a Rose,
  For me it is my heart.

  Frederick Peterson

  Flower, Heart, Blow

  Frederick Peterson (1893). “In the Shade of Ygdrasil”

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• 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

  Sweet, Flower, Sorrow

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.123, Penguin

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• You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  What Matters, Two, Smell

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”

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• Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

  William Watson

  Song, Eye, Light

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• The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Flower, Lovely Things

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• I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

  Bert Williams

  Children, Flower, Son

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• The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a tree. Still, the incident had given me a dangerous reputation. The story had gained legendary status, and I liked to imagine that it was still being told around campfires late at night. Judging by the look on the girl's face, it was.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Night, Judging

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.43, Penguin

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• I'm really not good with impulse control.

  Richelle Mead

  Impulse Control, Vampire, Academy

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.277, Penguin

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• Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

  Robert Burns

  Morning, Dew, Bud

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.216

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• The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.

  Maria Gowen Brooks

  Sweet, Perfect, Royalty

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• O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

  Robert Burns

  Love, Sprung Up, Red

  'A Red Red Rose' (1796) (derived from various folk-songs)

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• Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Sleep, Talking

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.193, Broadview Press

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• Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.195, The Floating Press

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• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  Don Marquis

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• One may live without bread, not without roses.

  Jean Richepin

  Flower, Food, May

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• The rose that all are praising
  Is not the rose for me.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Flower, Praise

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.73

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• Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

  Arthur Miller

  Best Friend, Smell, Trying

  Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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