“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”
JEAN COCTEAU, French author (1889-1963)
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“It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.” OSCAR WILDE
Photo: Brockeninaglory
It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.” OSCAR WILDE
Photo: Brockeninaglory
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Photo: “Shadow of Street Lamp on Wall in Prague, Czech Republic” by Casey Mahaney — prints available at galerie-creation.com.
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, Americus, Book I
Painting: “Under the Mirabeau Bridge” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti — a painting that features lines from a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919) earned an M.A. at Columbia University and a doctorate in literature at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. In the U.S., his paintings have been exhibited at The Butler Institute of American Art, The Whitney Museum in New York, and at the San Jose Museum of Art. His artwork is in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Learn more about the painting and artist at georgekrevskygallery.com.)
All good writing is like swimming under water and holding your breath.” F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Illustration: Frederick Stuart Church (“Mermaid” etching, 1887)
“I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.” RAYMOND CHANDLER, The High Window
Photo: “West Hollywood in the Early Morning Fog” by nightsinweho.com.
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, Americus, Book I
Painting: “Under the Mirabeau Bridge” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti — a painting that features lines from a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919) earned an M.A. at Columbia University and a doctorate in literature at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. In the U.S., his paintings have been exhibited at The Butler Institute of American Art, The Whitney Museum in New York, and at the San Jose Museum of Art. His artwork is in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Learn more about the painting and artist at georgekrevskygallery.com.)
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Photo: “Shadow of Street Lamp on Wall in Prague, Czech Republic” by Casey Mahaney — prints available at galerie-creation.com.
“I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.” RAYMOND CHANDLER, The High Window
Photo: “West Hollywood in the Early Morning Fog” by nightsinweho.com.
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