patriciapoon: Library Way

This is one of my favourite spots in New York.

Library Way is a small section on East 41st St in between the New York Public Library and the Grand Central Terminal. The sidewalk is full of inspiring quotes engraved in bronze plaques (96 in total but there're duplicates) by Gregg LeFevre. I literally stumbled upon beautiful bronze plaques on the ground and this is how I discovered it!

As something designed to be stepped on, they are so much more creative than the Hollywood Walk of Fame. LeFevre did a great job visualizing the quotes.

I didn't manage to take photos of all of them because some were hidden by trash:(

The sun was setting and cast some beautiful light on the bronze plaques.

Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot.

Muriel Rukeyser - The Speed of Darkness.

Marianne Moore - The Mind is an Enchanting Thing.

Tom Stoppard - Night and Day.

Bohumil Hrabal - Too Loud a Solitude.

Pablo Picasso - Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views.

Richard Eberhart - Reading Room: The New York Public Library.

Gu Cheng - Forever Parted: Graveyard. I'm thrilled to see works of a Chinese poet (that I like)! A mistake here: he had been dead (in 1993) for 5 years when the plaque was made in 1998.