“I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? — The perfume?”
Quentin in After the Fall (1964) Act II
After the Fall (1964)
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Gil Vicente (1456–1536) Portuguese writer
Viera estar rosal florido,
cogí rosas con sospiro:
vengo del rosale.<p>Del rosal vengo, mi madre,
vengo del rosale.
Del rosal vengo, mi madre — "I Come from the Rose-grove, Mother", as translated by J. Bowring in Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824), p. 317
Becky Stark (1976) American singer
Garden Rose
Imagine Our Love (2007)
Context: I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.
I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.
And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue
And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
And I love the garden rose.
Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry
Valentine, from Mean Time (1993).
“I know the colour rose, and it is lovely,
But not when it ripens in a tumour.”
Dannie Abse (1923–2014) Welsh poet and physician
Poem The Pathology of Colours in: Dannie Abse (1981) Miscellany One - Volume 1, p. 65
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) Irish-born poet and novelist
A White Rose, lines 1-4, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.
“Silently as a dream the fabric rose —
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 144.
