Awe Quote by Wallace Stevens

Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was…

— Christina Rossetti

“the literary equivalent of tearing the petals off and grinding them up and running the goo through a spectrometer to explain why a rose…

— David Foster Wallace

“A rose does not lose its beautiful scent because it grew in dirt.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.”

— Wallace Stevens

“...but from this distance, the velvety reds, flashing yellows and glassy whites [of the roses] seemed to break up the light of the summer…

— Jane Smiley

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.

— Ray Evans

As a rose cant live without the rain So a heart can't love without risk of pain

— Anonymous

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

— Ethel Waters

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

— William Shakespeare

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

— Anonymous

“But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways I cannot…

— John Keats

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst”

— Oscar Wilde