Balzac called the boulevards of Paris what the Grand Canal was to Venice,
saying that whoever stepped onto them was lost to their charm:
“on y boit des idees.’ (here people drink in ideas).
Edmund White, The Flaneur
…
” If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man,
then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you,
for Paris is a moveable feast.”
Ernest Hemingway
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Boulevards are Poems: Drink in Ideas
Posted in Paris Diaries, Photography, Quotes, tagged boulevards, Edmund White, Ernest Hemingway, Paris, Photography, the flâneur on November 6, 2011| 2 Comments »
Finding Poetry on a Student’s Desk
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 on May 8, 2010| 2 Comments »

The meaning of art. Graphite on paper. May 2010
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