Image of the Day – Les nénuphars by Claude Monet

by Paulo Coelho on July 14, 2008

Les nenuphars by Claude Monet

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José Henrique Ramos July 16, 2008 at 6:09 am

Claude Monet é sempre Claude Monet.

As bobagens que você escreve são sempre bobagens.

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Susan July 15, 2008 at 4:22 am

Monets work draws me -it is elemental, wild and full of spirits

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Tania July 15, 2008 at 3:24 am

Beautiful -gentle and open the water lilies -reflecting our beauty .Blessings Tania

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wanbliska July 15, 2008 at 2:58 am

:) Today I decided to go in a green place I like in my town. Last time I’d seen them, they were not in flowers and prolifering. I heard they are acting so, whether someone uproot them.
I can’t tell you how I found it today. There were flowers white and pink, but oh! The water was dirty, untreated. I took a look at the way it was flowing, and considered there were a problem with, though the pond was not really stagnant.
This is a place I’d like to meditate and it’s stinking. Human beings piss and puke in it.
Anyway, I found before a beautiful tree to rest by, close to the water.
But I won’t forget “les nénuphars”.

Thank you Paulo.

Sensation

Par les soirs bleus d’été, j’irai dans les sentiers,
Picoté par les blés, fouler l’herbe menue:
Rêveur, j’en sentirai la fraîcheur à mes pieds.
Je laisserai le vent baigner ma tête nue.

Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien:
Mais l’amour infini me montera dans l’âme,
Et j’irai loin, bien loin, comme un bohémien,
Par la Nature, heureux comme avec une femme.

Mars 1870.

Arthur Rimbaud.

Through blue summer nights, I will pass along paths,
Pricked by wheat, trampling fine grass:
Dreamer, I will feel the freshness beneath my feet.
I will let the wind bathe my bare head.

I won’t say a thing, I will think nothing:
But boundless love will rise in my soul,
And I’ll go far, very far, like a bohemian,
Within nature, as happily as with a woman.

March 1870.

Arthur Rimbaud.

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Kathleen July 15, 2008 at 12:47 am

Great idea. Image of the day.

Kathleen xxoo

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Nancy July 15, 2008 at 12:45 am

Image of the Day, a nice add to the blog.

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Monika July 14, 2008 at 11:28 pm

If I were a flower, I would be a water lilie or a sunflower!

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rosa de los vientos July 14, 2008 at 11:11 pm

Preciosa la transparencia del agua y el reflejo del Cielo azúl.
Dos imágenes: la belleza de la superficie y la belleza de lo reflejado.
Gracias por compartir.

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Tanja July 14, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Great idea
saludos :)

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THELMA July 14, 2008 at 6:40 pm

The symbol of our existence. The three bodies: the roots-the material body, the part in the water-the psychical body and the flower- the spiritual body. Claude Monet a wonderful painter…LOVE, THELMA

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Monika July 14, 2008 at 4:28 pm

Wonderful picture! I love Monet – I have a copy of one of his pictures over my desk in my workroom (a pond with the water lilies and a bridge above). My daughter and me we just have returned from a bicycle tour and we saw real water lilies on a pond. We discovered that they have three different colours: white, bright pink and dark pink. We made fotos of them.

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Agnieszka July 14, 2008 at 4:08 pm

Hmm..the water lilies…floating beauty…

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