Famous quotes containing the words white, rose and/or society:
“Only the white, tremendous foam of the street has any importance,
The new white flowers that are beginning to shoot up about now.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)