What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker defines a street as a place of both sorrow for the living and rest for the dead.
- In plain terms
- A street is where people cry and where the dead finally find peace.
- What can you take from it?
- Public spaces hold both sorrow and peace.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What emotions do public spaces evoke for you?
- How do places hold memories of life and death?
Another view
This romanticizes streets as peaceful when they are often places of danger.
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