"Unwooed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses. But, for their beauty only is their show, They live unwooed and unrespected fade; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so: Of their sweet deaths are ...
— The Sense of Beauty - Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory • George Santayana |
