Famous quotes containing the words stone and/or roses:
“It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is designed to perpetuate,—a stone to a bone? “Here lies,”M”Here lies”;Mwhy do they not sometimes write, There rises? Is it a monument to the body only that is intended?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You prefer a woman under the earth,
you heap roses above a grave;
a woman under the earth
is safe,
a woman dead
is beloved.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)