di kedinginan begini

• Sang pelangi datang dan pergi, yang indah hanyalah si kuntum rose, tulis si Wordsworth di keheningan Lake District.


• Rose ialah rose ialah rose ialah rose, rintih pujangga Stein.


• In the driest whitest stretch of pain's infinite desert, I lost my sanity and found this rose, sapa si Rumi.


• What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet, ujar Shakespeare.


• Oh, my love's like a red, red rose kata Burns di suatu musim panas di Ayr.


• Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread, but give us roses, ungkap Oppenheim.


• Sekuntum mawar merah, sebuah puisi, nyanyi Alleycats.


• Seterusnya, kataku di suatu musim luruh di Kelvingrove:
  
  
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