Seen, looking up, in a métro carriage in Paris. I love a city that reveres its poets.
Le poème—cette hésitation prolongée entre le son et le sens.
(The poem—that prolonged hesitation between sound and meaning.)
—Paul Valéry
Seen, looking up, in a métro carriage in Paris. I love a city that reveres its poets.
Le poème—cette hésitation prolongée entre le son et le sens.
(The poem—that prolonged hesitation between sound and meaning.)
—Paul Valéry
Filed under December fragments 2012
Tagged as paris, Paul Valéry, photographs, poetry
Author of SIX DAYS (August 2026), KATHLEEN O’CONNOR OF PARIS (narrative non-fiction), ELEMENTAL and THE SINKINGS (novels) and INHERITED (short story collection). looking up/looking down is an occasional blog about writing, reading and watching the world...
