Guest Author - Sue MacNeil

"It is at the edge of the petal that love waits." ~ William Carlos Williams

"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December." - J. M. Barrie

"The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a Rose, For me it is my heart." ~ Frederick Peterson 1859-1938

"If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is." ~ J B Yeats 1871-1957

"A rose is a rose is a rose." - Gertrude Stein

"Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?" ~ Julia C R Dorr

"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring." ~ William Carlos Williams

"And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies." - Christopher Marlowe

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." ~ Richard B Sheridan 1751-1816

"Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing." - William Butler Yeats

"The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple’s a rose." - Robert Frost

"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk." - Shakespeare

"Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew." - Edmund Spenser

"Oh, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That ’s newly sprung in June; Oh, my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune." - Robert Burns

"The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove." - John Boyle O’Reilly

"And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies." - Christopher Marlowe

"I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem." - William Butler Yeats

"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time." - Edmund Spenser

"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with elgantine." - Shakespeare

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense" - Mark Overby.

"A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world" - Leo Buscaglia.

"When love first came to Earth,the Spring spread rose-beds to receive him."~ Thomas Campbell