“Gather today the roses of life.”
Cueillez dès aujourd'hui les roses de la vie.
"Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle," l. 14.
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Cueillez dès aujourd'hui les roses de la vie.
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Pierre de Ronsard 2
French poet 1524–1585Related quotes
“The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.”
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“Gather the rose of love, while yet thou mayest,
Loving, be loved; embracing, be embraced.”
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Gather the Rose of Love, whilst yet is time,
Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Today in my heart
a vague trembling of stars
and all roses are
as white as my pain.”
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
General sources
“O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.”
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,<br/>et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,
et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 49; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.
