Roses/art

Famous quotes containing the words roses and/or art:

    “Making it, making it,
    in their chosen field
    the roses fall
    victim to a weakness of the heart.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead,
    That all of thee we loved and cherished
    Has with thy summer roses perished;
    And left, as its young beauty fled,
    An ashen memory in its stead.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)