Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Rose Quotes, Taste Quotes

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

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A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

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From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

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he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Rose Quotes , Great Gatsby American Dream Quotes

Say she rail; why, 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 wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Morning Quotes , Rose Quotes

He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

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The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

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When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

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...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Rose Quotes , Monsters Quotes

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

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A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

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And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

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I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

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Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

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When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

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At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

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