Red Roses

Famous quotes containing the words red roses, red and/or roses:

    Tommy is three and when he’s bad
    his mother dances with him.
    She puts on the record,
    Red Roses for a Blue Lady”
    and throws him across the room.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    What blazed ahead of you? A faked road block?
    The red lamp swung, the sudden brakes and stalling
    Engine, voices, heads hooded and the cold-nosed gun?
    Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    Making it, making it,
    in their chosen field
    the roses fall
    victim to a weakness of the heart.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)