„Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.“

— Geoffrey Chaucer
„Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.“
— Gertrude Stein
„You, of course, are a rose--But were always a rose.“
— Robert Frost
„Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:“
— W.B. Yeats