#rose

Everything's coming up roses - for me. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#coming #everything #me #roses #up

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#cellar #like #love #might #never

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war. ↗

— George Montagu

#dilemma #make #melancholy #peace #prosecute

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#considered #cut #decisive #language #observed

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. ↗

— Rick Moody

#composition #good #good prose #into #make

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring. ↗

— Rick Moody

#control #example #gets #going #good

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#into #kindled #maiden #roses #thought

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. ↗

— Thomas More

#friends #gave #leaves #love #roses

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#childless #couple #difference #gay #heterosexual

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. ↗

— Thomas More

#blooming #companions #faded #gone #her