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)