Roses/art

Famous quotes containing the words roses and/or art:

    Better than mortal flowers,
    Thy moon-kissed roses seem: better than love or sleep,
    The star-crowned solitude of thine oblivious hours!
    Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900)

    To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth ... but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
    Laura Riding (1901–1991)