Théophile Gautier, Émaux Et Camées Quotes
For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.
And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody, the wine.
Things perish. Gods have passed.But song sublimely castShall citadels outlast.