Roses

Famous quotes containing the word roses:

    “Better than mortal flowers,
    Thy moon-kissed roses seem: better than love or sleep,
    The star-crowned solitude of thine oblivious hours!”
    —Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900)

    “Ballades by the score with the same old thought:
    The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
    And what is love but a rose that fades?”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)

    “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)