Rose Tree

Famous quotes containing the words rose and/or tree:

“In the actual world—the painful kingdom of time and place—dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“What I want to say, Linda,
is that there is nothing in your body that lies.
All that is new is telling the truth.
I’m here, that somebody else,
an old tree in the background.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)