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• My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Rain, Animal

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

  Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

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• Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

  Christina Rossetti

  Time, Ivy, Perfect

  'Oh Roses for the Flush'

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• For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Love Is, Dust

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• Who can undo
  What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
  Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
  Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
  Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Time, Sunset, Winning

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• Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances.
  'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Glasses, People

  "The Age of Innocence".

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• At Christmas I no more desire a rose
  Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
  But like of each thing that in season grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Christmas, Time, Xmas

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

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• Roses are reddish
  Violets are bluish
  If it weren't for Christmas
  We'd all be Jewish.

  Benny Hill

  Christmas, Reality, Violet

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• Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, Otters, Information

  Mark Twain (2008). “Roughing It”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life is short, and time is swift;
  Roses fade, and shadows shift.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Life, Shadow, Fades

  Ebenezer Elliott, Mark Storey (2008). “Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott”, p.170, Associated University Presse

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• Who but knows
  How it goes!
  Life's a last year's Nightingale,
  Love's a last year's rose.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Years, Lasts

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• I would not be a rose upon the wall
  A queen might stop at, near the palace-door,
  To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me,
  It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh!
  I'd rather far be trodden by his foot,
  Than lie in a great queen's bosom.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Queens, Wall

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.129

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• The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Garden, Single Rose

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Lady of silences
  Calm and distressed
  Torn and most whole
  Rose of memory
  Rose of forgetfulness
  Exhausted and life-giving
  Worried reposeful
  The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end
  Terminate torment
  Of love unsatisfied
  The greater torment
  Of love satisfied
  End of the endless
  Journey to no end
  Conclusion of all that
  Is inconclusible
  Speech without word and
  Word of no speech
  Grace to the Mother
  For the Garden
  Where all love ends.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Mother, Memories

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Heart of my heart, the world is young;
  Love lies hidden in every rose!

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Lying, Heart

  Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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• Heart of my heart, the world is young;
  Love lies hidden in every rose!
  Every song that the skylark sung
  Once, we thought, must come to a close:
  Now we know the spirit of song,
  Song that is merged in the chant of the whole,
  Hand in hand as we wander along,
  What should we doubt of the years that roll?

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Song, Lying

  Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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• There has fallen a splendid tear
  From the passion-flower at the gate.
  She is coming, my dove, my dear;
  She is coming, my life, my fate;
  The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
  And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
  The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;"
  And the lily whispers, "I wait."

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Flower, Passion

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

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• Love laid his sleepless head
  On a thorny rose bed:
  And his eyes with tears were red,
  And pale his lips as the dead.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Eye, Tears

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1884). “Selections from the Poetical Works of A.C. Swinburne”, New York, Crowell

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• It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, Scratches, Looks

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• Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.

  e. e. cummings

  Romantic, Spring, Romance

  E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”

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• I let it fall, my heart
  And as it fell, you rose to claim it,
  It was dark, and I was sober,
  Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.

  Adele

  Break Up, Fall, Heart

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• It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

  George William Curtis

  Christmas, Sunshine, June

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• At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Christmas, Desire

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

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• Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Courage, Piano, Smell

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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• All night have the roses heard
  The flute, violin, bassoon;
  All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
  To the dancers dancing in tune;
  Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
  And a hush with the setting moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dance, Moon, Night

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.890, Delphi Classics

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