| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 3937 |
| QUOTATION: | O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Louis Aragon (18971982), French poet. Les Lilas et les Roses (trans. by Louis MacNeice), Le Crève-Coeur (1940). |
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