Roses Poems and Famous Rose Quotes

For centuries, roses have inspired love, passion and much has been written about the beautful Rose.
We have collected some short poems and famous quotes regarding the Rose.
If you have a poem or quote you would like us to include in our collection, please send your quote through our comments field.
Famous Rose Quotes
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia
You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. - Anne Bronte
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
- Chinese Proverb
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
- Ben Hogan
Don 't hurry. Don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time. - Edmund Spenser
Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowers that in the forest grew.
- Edmund Spenser
Everything's coming up roses - for me. - Ethel Merman
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One may live without bread, not without roses. - Jean Richepin
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
- Henri Matisse
What's in a name? That which we call a rose - By any other word would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
- Ovid
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Turkish Proverb
They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
- Ernest Dowson
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. - William Shakespeare
A rose is a rose is a rose. - Gertrude Stein Oh, my luve’s like a red, red rose, They are not, the days of wine and roses:
Short Poems regarding The Rose
That’s newly sprung in June
Oh, my luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
- Robert Burns
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still aflying,
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
- Robert Herrick
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
- Thomas F, Healey
'Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.
- Thomas Moore
And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Out of a misty dream,
Our path emerges for a while, then closes,
Within a dream.
- Ernest Dowson


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