{"id":1193,"date":"2013-12-16T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/?page_id=1193"},"modified":"2021-11-30T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:18:08","slug":"the-library-inscriptions-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/about\/inscriptions\/the-library-inscriptions-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Library Inscriptions &#8211; Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High on the east wall of the outer lobby is a panel with the words<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Our lives flower and pass. Only<\/em><br \/>\n<em>robust works of the imagination<\/em><br \/>\n<em>live in eternity&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1195\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/ourlives.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1193]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1195\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/ourlives-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/ourlives-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/ourlives-768x280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/ourlives-1024x373.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/ourlives-80x29.jpg 80w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1549\/ourlives.jpg 2282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture of inscription &#8220;Our lives flower&#8230;&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These are lines from Denise Levertov\u2019s poem \u201cArt (After Gautier),\u201d a free translation of Theophile Gautier\u2019s poem \u201cL\u2019Art,\u201d in Emaux et Camees, 1872. The poem was published in her collection, With Eyes At the Back Of Our Heads (New York, 1959, page 72).<\/p>\n<p>This panel, like the one opposite it, is dark gray Buckingham slate from a quarry in Arvonia, Virginia, split from the same quarry block, with matched surfaces. The text is carved in a modern version of the chancery italic hand.<\/p>\n<p>This panel and the two adjacent panels were installed in late July, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a title=\"Inscriptions\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/inscriptions\/\">Back to Inscriptions main page<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High on the east wall of the outer lobby is a panel with the words Our lives flower and pass. Only robust works of the imagination live in eternity&#8230; These are lines from Denise Levertov\u2019s poem \u201cArt (After Gautier),\u201d a free translation of Theophile Gautier\u2019s poem \u201cL\u2019Art,\u201d in Emaux et Camees, 1872. The poem was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"parent":1094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9780,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1193\/revisions\/9780"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}