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“In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.”

“The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.”

World Earth Water Divine Wall Cold Kissing Shadow Rose Winter Yellow Bent Alas Ponds Swans

Author:Friedrich Holderlin

“Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose, the flower-spangled sward beneath, or the star-spangled sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or a boundless ocean, in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nature that He might save our souls.”

May Soul Might Stars Water Nature Wonder Sky Creation Objects Flower Ocean Angel Rose Repeats Weed Providence Impressed Adore Pearls Worms Piety Boundless Footsteps Pebbles Drop Of Water

Author:Thomas Guthrie

“New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.”

Men Found Water Millions Impossible New York Return Horror Window Rose Wave Caged

Book:Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

“I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.”

Faces Water Morning Hot Rose Oil Get Up Eggs Routine Toasts Lemons Hot Water Morning Routines

Author:Alice Temperley

“[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.”

Ifs Water Cities New York Rose Invisible Visible Temples Tall Gothic Detached

Author:Nina Berberova

“My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.”

Stars Water Nature Sun Moon Rose Fruit Clock Jewels Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Lady Hester Stanhope

“Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.”

Two Humor Water Religious Air Cry Devil Rose Flew Mockery Sportive

Book:The Life of Luther

Source: The Life of Luther

“And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete.”

Said Stills Dies Water Break Hell Rose Plant Weed Concrete Indigenous Giver Papa Fertilizer

Book:Burro Genius

Source: Burro Genius

“Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.”

Giving Facts Water Flower Rose Lasting Daisies

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.”

Water Sea Shining Rose Whales Tents Spray Darkening

Book:The collected poems of Yvor Winters

Source: The collected poems of Yvor Winters

“Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.”

Ifs Heart Persons Made Sometimes Body Hands Light Would Be Eye Faces Passion Stars Water Air Sky Promise Garden Rose Evening If I Could Sincerity Making Love Palms Rose Garden Evening Sky

Author:Victor Hugo

“I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.”

Looks Water Memories Roles Grew Lucky Husband Majors Grew Up My Friends Ideals Rose Profession Arcadia Ideal Husband

Author:Samantha Bond