#rose

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

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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

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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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People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. ↗

— Edwin W. Edwards

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This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen. ↗

— Richelle Mead

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There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. ↗