<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357794" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Artist and the Alderman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Give us gardens!' said the artist,<br>'Blatant brick and soulless stone,<br>Never built a noble city.<br> Man lives not by bread alone,<br>Beauty brings, for our enrichment,<br>Smiling lawn and spreading tree.'<br>'Bricks and mortar,' said the alderman,<br>'Bring in more £.s.d.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As acid and alkali,<br>Water and fire,<br>The good and the evil,<br>Discension inspire;<br>As the cat and the dog,<br>And the axe and the tree,<br> So artists and aldermen<br> Never agree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said the artist: 'Give us gardens!<br>So to save the civic soul,<br>Draw aesthetic men about you<br>Ere base ideals take control.<br>Let artistic minds advise you,<br>Lest you pay a shameful price.'<br>'And who,' inquired the alderman,<br> 'Needs any such advice?'<br> <br>As the cop and the crook,<br>As the fool and the sage,<br>As light and the darkness,<br>Hot youth and old age<br>As the lamb and the lion,<br>The ant and the bee,<br>So artists and aldermen,<br>Never agree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357794" data-title="The Artist and the Alderman de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="'Give us gardens!' said the artist, 'Blatant brick and soulless stone, Never built a noble city. Man lives not by bread alone, Beauty brings, for our enrichment, Smiling lawn and spreading tree.' 'Bricks and mortar,' said the alderman, 'Bring in ..."></div> </div> </div>

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