Famous quotes containing the words stone and/or roses:
“Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Better than mortal flowers,
Thy moon-kissed roses seem: better than love or sleep,
The star-crowned solitude of thine oblivious hours!”
—Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900)