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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realise that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.
(Sean O'Casey (1884-1964), Irish dramatist. "In New York Now," Rose And Crown (1952).
Of the so-called "ugliness under the skin ... the functioning flesh, blood, bone, muscle," from the fifth volume of O'Casey's autobiography.)
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Sacred Emily (written 1913), published in Geography and Plays (1922).
Thought to refer to the artist Sir Francis Rose, one of whose paintings was hung in her Paris drawing-room.)
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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realise that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.
(Sean O'Casey (1884-1964), Irish dramatist. "In New York Now," Rose And Crown (1952).
Of the so-called "ugliness under the skin ... the functioning flesh, blood, bone, muscle," from the fifth volume of O'Casey's autobiography.)
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When I saw that clumsy crow
Flap from a wasted tree,
A shape in the mind rose up:
(Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Night Crow (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.)
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When I saw that clumsy crow
Flap from a wasted tree,
A shape in the mind rose up:
(Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Night Crow (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.)
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You, of course, are a rose—
But were always a rose.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Rose Family (l. 9-10). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.
(Francis Thompson (1859-1907), British poet. Daisy (l. 37-40). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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Rhododendron,
O wide rose,
open, quiver, pause
and close.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Dancer.")
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