Flowers Quote by Anne Carson

“It was very still. The tree was tall and straggling. It had thrown its briers over a hawthorn-bush, and its long streamers trailed thick,…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The roses once grew there, and well their lives conceal; the ivy cobbled up their voices, and made me not to feel.”

— Amy N. Edwards

“If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

— William Shakespeare

“And now, a heap of roses beside the sea, white rugosa beside the foaming hem of shore: brave, waxen candles… And we talk as…

— Mark Doty

“A rose for all its beauty still has a thorn”

— Ken Maxon

...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow,…

— William Butler Yeats

“They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the June A wind with fingers goes. They…

— Emily Dickinson

“Roses bloom and cease to be, but we shall the Christ-child see”

— Hans Christian Andersen

“The rose fell, a brief fragrant blazing meteor before it plummeted to the cold stones, forgotten.”

— Melinda O'Donnell

“The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The Roses of Saadi I wanted you to have roses this morn, And stuffed a lot of them in my snug dress, In my…

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore