“When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.”
Pseudodoxia Epidemica Book 5, Ch. 22, sect. 6
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Thomas Browne 78
English polymath 1605–1682Related quotes
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
"The Blank Page"
Last Tales (1957)
Context: Why, you are to become a story teller, and I shall give you the reasons! Hear then: Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. Whether a small snotty lass understands it or not.
2010s, 2017, Speech at "Spirit of Liberty: At Home, In the World" event (2017)
“Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire,
To be no one's sleep under so many
Lids.”
Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust,
Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel
Lidern.
Rilke wrote his own epitaph sometime before October 27, 1925. He requested that it be inscribed on his gravestone. This was fifteen months before his death. (Translation: John J.L.Mood)
Source: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/10/nigeria-61-eie-11-light-hope-power-and-voice-opinion/ Speaking about Nigeria (October 18 2021 )
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, First Part.
First Part of Narrative
