20 Quotes by Nathalia Crane

You cannot choose your battlefield,God does that for you;But you can plant a standardWhere a standard never flew.(From The Colors)

The rose has toldIn one simplicityThat never lifeRelinquishes a bloomBut to bestowAn ancient confidence.

You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.

There is a glory in a great mistake.

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.

Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.

I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.