Book the Sixth
Sordello (1840)
Renée Vivien (1877–1909) British poet who wrote in the French language
L’herbe de l’été pâlit sous le soleil.<br>La rose, expirant sous les âpres ravages<br>Des chaleurs, languit vers l’ombre, et le sommeil<br>Coule des feuillages. <br class="br"> La fraîcheur se glisse http://www.reneevivien.com/sapho.html#fraicheur (Coolness glides...), trans. Margaret Porter (1977) <br class="br"> Sapho http://www.reneevivien.com/sapho.html (1903)
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) American magazine writer, editor, and publisher
The Month of June.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
Fred Weatherly (1848–1929) English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster
Song Roses of Picardy http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/rosesofpicardy.htm
Johnny Marr (1963) musician
Bigmouth Strikes Again, The Queen Is Dead (1986), co-written with Morrissey.
Variation in Live at Earls Court: "And her IPod started to melt."
“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 60
“My tales may not be roses, but I will not boil them.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
Context: "But surely you would explain your idea to one who asked you?"
I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one. Any key to a work of imagination would be nearly, if not quite, as absurd. The tale is there, not to hide, but to show: if it show nothing at your window, do not open your door to it; leave it out in the cold. To ask me to explain, is to say, "Roses! Boil them, or we won't have them!" My tales may not be roses, but I will not boil them.
So long as I think my dog can bark, I will not sit up to bark for him.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687) English statesman and poet
Prologue
The Rehearsal (1671)
