#roses only

[geopsych]

"You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather than an asset

.....

Your thorns are the best part of you."

—Lines from Marianne Moore’s poem Roses Only.

[taxi-davis]

[jeaulie]

your thorns are the best part of you 

[5randomthings]

Ordering Roses Online: How to Do it Right Gone are the days when you have to scout different local roses only shops in your area to pick the best bouquet for your wife; today, you can always go online to order a bunch of flowers and have it delivered to your wife.

[thetaxonomist-blog]

Roses Only

You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather than an asset - that in view of the fact that spirit creates form we are justified in supposing that you must have brains. For you, a symbol of the unit, stiff and sharp, conscious of surpassing by dint of native superiority and liking for everything self-dependent, anything an ambitious civilization might produce: for you, unaided, to attempt through sheer reserve, to confuse presumptions resulting from observation, is idle. You cannot make us think you a delightful happen-so. But rose, if you are brilliant, it is not because your petals are the without-which-nothing of pre-eminence. Would you not, minus thorns, be a what-is-this, a mere peculiarity? They are not proof against a worm, the elements, or mildew; but what about the predatory hand? What is brilliance without co-ordination? Guarding the infinitesimal pieces of your mind, compelling audience to the remark that it is better to be forgotten than to be re- membered too violently, your thorns are the best part of you. 

Marianne Moore

[allthatweseeandseem]

Poem of the day: Marianne Moore - Roses Only

You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather than an asset - that in view of the fact that spirit creates form we are justified in supposing that you must have brains. For you, a symbol of the unit, stiff and sharp, conscious of surpassing by dint of native superiority and liking for everything self-dependent, anything an ambitious civilization might produce: for you, unaided, to attempt through sheer reserve, to confuse presumptions resulting from observation, is idle. You cannot make us think you a delightful happen-so. But rose, if you are brilliant, it is not because your petals are the without-which-nothing of pre-eminence. Would you not, minus thorns, be a what-is-this, a mere perculiarity? They are not proof against a worm, the elements, or mildew; but what about the predatory hand? What is brilliance without co-ordination? Guarding the infinitesimal pieces of your mind, compelling audience to the remark that it is better to be forgotten than to be re- membered too violently, your thorns are the best part of you.

[smoke-and-dragons-blog]

your thorns are the best part of you.

Marianne Moore, "Roses Only"