“Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!”
Edward Fitzgerald
“Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! / The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, / Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!”
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
Jean Cocteau
“We are surrounded by scents, so you don't want the room scent to compete or be overpowering. There's fragrance in deodorants and almost every household product. People spend a great deal of time in grocery aisles just trying to decide which scented detergent, dish or bath or cleaning soap to buy.”
Terry Molnar
“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”
Arthur Miller
“The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.”
Dr. Richard Selzer
