silviaON:
all cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. all cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. Christopher Morley
silviaON:
the life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. we are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. Charles Baudelaire
silviaON:
a city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Margaret Mead
silviaON:
and the night shall be filled with music, -and the cares that infest the day -shall fold their tents like the arabs -and as silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done
silviaON:
every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher