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Address:

24 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA

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Walking path

City:

New York, NY

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USA

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Rectangle

Material:

Metal

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Ground

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Gregg LeFevre

Literature and poetry

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When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), From “When You are Old”

[Gregg LeFevre Signature]

Photography:

2022
Ariel Rubinstein

Comments:

The Library Walk, is a venture launched in 1996 by the New York Public Library, Grand Central Partnership and New Yorker Magazine, in which are embedded in bronze plaques quotes from well-known books, or those dealing with books and literature. The panels designed by artist Gregg LeFevre were laid in 1998 from the New York Public Library building along 41st Street.

The plaque features two verses from the poem of the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats - "When You Are Old".

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