Purple Roses

Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or roses:

    “Now I am powerless
    to draw back
    for the sea is cyclamen-purple,
    cyclamen-red, colour of the last grapes,
    colour of the purple of the flowers,
    cyclamen-coloured and dark.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “No peevish winter wind shall chill
    No sullen tropic sun shall wither
    The roses in the rose-garden which is ours and ours only”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)