“When I said. "A rose is a rose is a rose." And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do? I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.”
"Poetry and Grammar"
Lectures in America (1935)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Gertrude Stein 160
American art collector and experimental writer of novels, p… 1874–1946Related quotes
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
"Poetry and Grammar"
Lectures in America (1935)
“I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.”
Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.
A. Hayward, Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Introduction.
“I was testing dorm security," I said. "It sucks." - Rose”
Variant: Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me.
"I was testing dorm security," I said. "It sucks.
Source: Shadow Kiss
“Strew on her roses, roses,
And never a spray of yew.
In quiet she reposes:
Ah! would that I did too.”
"Requiescat" (1853), st. 1
Song Roses of Picardy http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/rosesofpicardy.htm
“Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:”
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1736/
The Rose (1893)
Context: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:
Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide;
The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed,
Who cast round Fergus dreams, and ruin untold;
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)