Quotations About / On: ROSE

  • 41.
    I'll tell you how the Sun rose—
    A Ribbon at a time—
    (Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I'll tell you how the Sun rose (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  • 42.
    Ours is the bee's soft belly
    and the blush of the rose-petal,
    lifted, of the flower.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "White World.")
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  • 43.
    Creation's blithe and petaled word
    To the lounged goddess when she rose
    Conceding dialogue with eyes
    That smile unsearchable repose—
    (Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Voyages. . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 44.
    And I rose
    In rainy autumn
    And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.
    (Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. Poem in October (l. 14-16). . . The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions.)
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  • 45.
    It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.
    (Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian revolutionary. My Life, ch. 40 (1930). In his last book, Stalin (published 1947), drafted while in exile in Mexico, Trotsky wrote: "Our paths diverged so long ago and so far, and in my eyes he is so much the instrument of historical forces that are alien and hostile to me, that my feelings towards him differ little from those I have towards Hitler or the Mikado. The personal element burned out long ago." Trotsky was assassinated on Stalin's orders before the book could be finished.)
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  • 46.
    My wild Irish Rose,
    The sweetest flow'r that grows.
    (Chauncey Olcott (1858-1932), U.S. songwriter. "My Wild Irish Rose," M. Witmark & Sons (1899). Music composed by Duke Ellington (1899-1974).)
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  • 47.
    Before I am lost,
    hell must open like a red rose
    for the dead to pass.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Eurydice.")
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  • 48.
    you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
    (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
    (E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond (l. 7-8). . . Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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  • 49.
    The mind is the great poem of winter, the man,
    Who, to find what will suffice,
    Destroys romantic tenements
    Of rose and ice....
    (Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Man and Bottle.")
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  • 50.
    But earthlier happy is the rose distilled
    Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,
    Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Theseus, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 1, sc. 1, l. 76-8. "Rose distilled" means literally distilled to perfume, but figuratively suggests marriage (and happiness on this earth).)
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