#rose

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard. ↗

— Eric Davis

#attitude #better #dave #fortunate #game

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person. ↗

— Loretta Devine

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#capote #heterosexual #i #i am #truman

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses- ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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They are not long, the days of wine and roses. ↗

— Ernest Dowson

#long #roses #wine

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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