I found this in the Net, and I will quote it fully including the quotes by Antoine Saint Exupery the author of The Little Prince.
The Little Prince and The Rose
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
I crashed upon the beautiful story of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery in my last orchestra. They were playing a piece from the novel itself and it reminded me again the beautiful story that he told in his novel. The relationship between the little prince and its rose warm my heart.
On that story, the little prince, fell in love instantly with a rose in his asteroid. The little prince care so much to the rose. The rose with its thorns seems defenseless and susceptible- and yet, she shows off her thorns and puts on a superior attitude. But the rose’s vanity and demands cause the heartbreak of the little prince. And thus, he decided to leave its asteroid and the rose.
“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her…”
Just before the prince leaves, the rose said to it’s prince :
“Of course I love you,” the flower said to him. “It is my fault that you have not known it all the while. That is of no importance. But you — you have been just as foolish as I. Try to be happy…”
On his voyage to the earth, he come across a huge rose garden, and he realised that his roses were not the only one in the universe.
“There might be millions of roses in the whole world, but you’re my only one, unique rose.”
On the movie adaptation, the rose is the reason why the prince come back to its asteroid even though it’s too late that the rose has dead.
“. . . One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. . . . It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important. . . . You become responsible for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose. . . .”
The story was telling a beautiful story of love. As the rose, we may take the love that’s being given as granted, and thus, we forgot to ’taking care’ of the love itself. And as a little prince, we may need to go around the world to realize that our rose is the only one because ‘anything essential is invisible to the eyes…’ Even though the rose is being portrayed in the story as a vain, foolish, frail, and naïve creature, the little prince loves that rose.
Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.
above written by Karina H in MEDIUM.
The Little Prince has been with me, it seems, all my life. It is the only book I have read in the four languages familiar to me. English Francaise Espanol and Portugese.
Many profound truths which the philosophers tell us are immediately evident to the children.
in 2019, La petite poete de Côte Sauvage said to me:
Why do not the people realize that it is not necessary to shout, the longer they shout, quicker they loose their voice.
Le Petite Poete was 10 years old at that time.
and what does our revered Maulana Jalaluddin RUMI say:
At the airport in Havana, I saw a poster which I remember seeing many many years ago at the bookstore at the beginning of Calle Obispo
Rose and a Thorn
a drop of blood about to drop.
The more I thought about it, my relationship with Cuba, the explanation of the Little Prince and the Rose, I realize that poster expressed the grand metaphor that is Cuba to me.
