“Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.”
America, A Prophecy.
1800s
Source: America: A Prophecy/Europe: A Prophecy: Facsimile Reproductions of Two Illuminated Books
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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827Related quotes
“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
"Sacred Emily"
This statement, written in 1913 and first published in Geography and Plays, is thought to have originally been inspired by the work of the artist Sir Francis Rose; a painting of his was in her Paris drawing-room.
See also the Wikipedia article: Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Nigel Rees explains the phrase thus: "The poem 'Sacred Emily' by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) is well-nigh impenetrable to the average reader but somehow it has managed to give a format phrase to the language. If something is incapable of explanation, one says, for example, 'a cloud is a cloud is a cloud.' What Stein wrote, however, is frequently misunderstood. She did not say 'A rose is a rose is a rose,' as she might well have done, but 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose' (i.e. no indefinite article at the start and three not two repetitions.) The Rose in question was not a flower but an allusion to the English painter, Sir Francis Rose, 'whom she and I regarded' wrote Constantine Fitzgibbon, 'as the peer of Matisse and Picasso, and whose paintings — or at least painting — hung in her Paris drawing-room while a Gauguin was relegated to the lavatory.'" - Sayings of the Century, page 91
Geography and Plays (1922)
June Carter Cash (1929–2003) American singer, songwriter and actress
Ring of Fire (1963); co-written with Merle Kilgore · June Carter Cash performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyNf6sw8xaE · Anita Carter version (1963) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlWGsaorj6U · Johnny Cash performance (1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEOdXU_JQPA · Johnny Cash performance (1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zNQA5Xi4Q · Live performance by June (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpRa6JbywTc
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) Irish-born poet and novelist
A White Rose, lines 1-4, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.
“Someday you will name me,
then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.
[Songs of Longing]”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Source: Rainer Maria Rilke - Sämtliche Werke (Complete Works)
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
September Song http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/september-song/. <br class="br">Poetry
“The rose that all are praising
Is not the rose for me.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer
The Rose that all are praising, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).