<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453855" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Roses Only</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather<br>than<br>an asset - that in view of the fact that spirit creates form<br>we are justified in supposing<br>that you must have brains. For you, a symbol of the<br>unit, stiff and sharp,<br>conscious of surpassing by dint of native superiority and<br>liking for everything<br>self-dependent, anything an</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ambitious civilization might produce: for you, unaided, to<br>attempt through sheer<br>reserve, to confuse presumptions resulting from<br>observation, is idle. You cannot make us<br>think you a delightful happen-so. But rose, if you are<br>brilliant, it<br>is not because your petals are the without-which-nothing<br>of pre-eminence. Would you not, minus<br>thorns, be a what-is-this, a mere<br>perculiarity? They are not proof against a worm, the<br>elements, or mildew;<br>but what about the predatory hand? What is brilliance<br>without co-ordination? Guarding the<br>infinitesimal pieces of your mind, compelling audience to<br>the remark that it is better to be forgotten than to be re-<br>membered too violently,<br>your thorns are the best part of you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marianne+Moore">Marianne Moore</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453855" data-title="Roses Only de Marianne Moore" data-description="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 su..."></div> </div> </div>

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