Roses

Famous quotes containing the word roses:

    “You prefer a woman under the earth,
    you heap roses above a grave;
    a woman under the earth
    is safe,
    a woman dead
    is beloved.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Say that she rail, why then I’ll tell her plain
    She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
    Say that she frown, I’ll say she looks as clear
    As morning roses newly washed with dew.
    Say she be mute, and will not speak a word,
    Then I’ll commend her volubility,
    And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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