Uploads from ATIS547, tagged poetry

Library Walk Plaque 2

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:40:33 -0700

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Jose Marti: "The knowledge of different literatures frees one from the tyranny of a few."

Library Walk Plaque 1

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:40:44 -0700

ATIS547 posted a photo:

"A celebration of the world's greatest literature. Brought to you by the Grand Central Partnership and the New York Public Library. Sculptor: Gregg Lefevre. 1998."

Library Way -- East 41st Street

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:41:00 -0700

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Library Walk Plaque 9

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:39:08 -0700

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Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee: "Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am."

Library Walk Plaque 10

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:57 -0700

ATIS547 posted a photo:

Gertrude Stein: "Not ribberish, but merily writing backwards. But then again, who am I to judge?..."

Library Walk Plaque 5

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:40:00 -0700

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Jorge Luis Borges: "All things are words in some strange tongue, in thrall to Someone, Something, who both day and night proceeds in endless gibberish to write the history of the world..."

Library Walk Plaque 4

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:40:12 -0700

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Bohumil Hrabal: "Because when I read I don't really read. I pop a sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur, until the thought dissolves in me, like alcohol infusing brain and heart. and coursing through the veins to the root of each blood vessel."

Library Walk Plaque 3

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:40:23 -0700

ATIS547 posted a photo:

William Styron: "...a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."

Library Walk Plaque 17

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:31 -0700

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Gwendolyn Brooks: "A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's poem with your extensions, your unique personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you."

Library Walk Plaque 6

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:39:47 -0700

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Georges Braque: "Truth exists. Only falsehood has to be invented."

Library Walk Plaque 22

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:11 -0700

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E.B. White: "I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens."

Library Walk Plaque 21

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:15 -0700

ATIS547 posted a photo:

Henry David Thoreau: "Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

Library Walk Plaque 7

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:39:33 -0700

ATIS547 posted a photo:

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: "Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers, and that which is remembered."

Library Walk Plaque 12

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:49 -0700

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Kate Chopin: "The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings."

Library Walk Plaque 23

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:08 -0700

ATIS547 posted a photo:

"A celebration of the world's greatest literature. Brought to you by the Grand Central Partnership and the New York Public Library. Sculptor: Gregg Lefevre. 1998."

Library Walk Plaque 18

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:26 -0700

ATIS547 posted a photo:

Lucille Clifton: "they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine."

Library Walk Plaque 16

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:35 -0700

ATIS547 posted a photo:

Samuel Beckett:

Vladimir: What do they say?

Estragon: They talk about their lives.

Vladimir: To have lived is not enough for them.

Estragon: They have to talk about it.

Vladimir: To be dead is not enough for them.

Estragon: It is not sufficient.

Library Walk Plaque 14

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:42 -0700

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Renee Descartes: "The reading of good books is like conversation with the best men of past centuries."

Library Walk Plaque 19

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:24 -0700

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Pablo Picasso: "Nature and art, being two differing things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not."

Library Walk Plaque 15

nobody@flickr.com (ATIS547) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:38:38 -0700

ATIS547 posted a photo:

William Butler Yeats: "When you are old and gray and full of sleep and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, and loved your beauty with love false or true, but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face;"