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Finding Poetry on a Student’s Desk

May 8, 2010 by sketchbloom

The meaning of art. Graphite on paper. May 2010

Today I found Emerson, Rainer Maria Rilke and Whitman of O Captain! My Captain! hanging out by a student’s desk. (what color is poetry?) Hemingway was smoking a pipe on the corner, looking at William Carlos Williams. Yeats and Frost were conversing on the road not taken, and Sandburg was thinking about stopping by the City Lights bookstore, North Beach, San Francisco.

Just yesterday I was thinking that my desire to teach can all be traced back to seeing ‘Dead Poets Society’ at 16, English class, Mister Hanneman’s. That was Breckenridge, Minnesota.

I wish I could watch that movie with my students, at the beginning of each quarter: it is veiled under architecture, and art, and history…but the meaning and the message is always poetry, always life.

I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately.I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Make your life extraordinary.

Posted in art,poetry,writing, Drawing, Film, Poetry, Quotes | Tagged Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway, Frost, O Captain My Captain, Poetry, ralph waldo emerson, school, Thoreau, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Yeats | 2 Comments

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on May 14, 2010 at 12:48 pm | Reply suzanne cabrera

Hi Miti—
Can’t begin to tell you how much this post speaks to me. I’m so with you on Dead Poets Society…Walden…

I owe you letters…several. I will be in touch soon!

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- on May 16, 2010 at 8:44 am | Reply sketchbloom
  
  My dear Suzanne, you don’t owe me anything:)
  As someone said ‘There are no deadlines between friends’. I am just so happy I found you and thankful for all that you share!!
  
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