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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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Spanish songs in Andalucía
The shooting sites of the days of '39
Oh please leave the ventana open
Frederico Lorca is dead and gone
Bullet holes in the cemetery walls
The black cars of the Guardia Civil
Spanish bombs on the Costa Rica
I'm flying in on a DC 10 tonight
Spanish Bombs, The Clash
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There was life and motion everywhere, and yet everywhere there was a hush - clad half in moonbeams and half in mysterious shadows.
Mark Twain,
Arriving in Venice, 1868
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Your poets
wander through your alleys
But instead of writing verse
they weep.
Jaroslav Seifert
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We, transformed into slaves, have marched a hundred times backwards and forwards to our silent labours, killed in our spirit long before our anonymous deaths.
Primo Levi,
Survival In Auschwitz
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But vice and drunkenness wore light colors here. Gradually the nightclubs closed but we didn't feel like going to sleep, we felt so alive.
Simone de Beauvoir,
America Day By Day
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Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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He who would become a surgeon should join the army and follow it.
Hippocrates
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Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. We are not here long.
Walker Evans
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel Burnham
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The Lincoln Highway was the first automobile road across America. Dedicated in 1913, it brought great prosperity to the cities and towns along its way.
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If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
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