Purple Roses

Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or roses:

    “O’er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
    The bloom of young desire and purple light of love.”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “O night,
    you take the petals
    of the roses in your hand,
    but leave the stark core
    of the rose
    to perish on the branch.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)