“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
Source: This Side of Paradise
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F. Scott Fitzgerald411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“This shitty world sometimes produces a rose
The scent of it lingers and then it just goes”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
Cedars Of Lebanon
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World
“We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses,
Dewy as the morning and colored like the dawn.”
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) American artist
The new pastoral Book.
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) American magazine writer, editor, and publisher
The Month of June.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
“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)