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Charles Baudelaire – Invito al Viaggio / Invitation to the Voyage

By booksofart / Charles Baudelaire / beauty, Idyll, les fleurs du mal, travel

Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904 My child, my sister,think of the raptureof living together there! Of loving at will, of loving till death,in the land that is like you! The misty sunlight of those cloudy skieshas for my spirit the charms, so mysterious, of your treacherous eyes,shining brightly through their tears.There all is order and beauty,luxury, peace, and pleasure.Gleaming …

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Charles Baudelaire – Ho più ricordi / I have more memories

By booksofart / Charles Baudelaire / interior, les fleurs du mal, time

Umberto Boccioni, The mother, 1906 I have more memories than if I’d lived a thousand years. Ho più ricordi che se fossi carico di mille anni. Go back to album – C. Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire – Al lettore / To the reader

By booksofart / Charles Baudelaire / hell, les fleurs du mal

Bernardino Parentino (1437-1531), The Temptation of St. Anthony Folly, error, sin, avarice occupy our minds and labor our bodies, and we feed our pleasant remorse as beggars nourish their vermin.Our sins are obstinate, our repentance is faint; we exact a high price for our confessions, and we gaily return to the miry path, believing that base tears wash away all our …

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Charles Baudelaire – La Vita Anteriore / My Former Life

By booksofart / Charles Baudelaire / Idyll, les fleurs du mal, melancholy, nude, sea

Giorgio De Chirico, Bathers on the beach, 1934 For a long time I dwelt under vast porticos which the ocean suns lit with a thousand colors, the pillars of which, tall, straight, and majestic, made them, in the evening, like basaltic grottos.The billows which cradled the image of the sky mingled, in a solemn, mystical way, the omnipotent chords of …

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Charles Baudelaire – Lamenti di un Icaro / Complaint of an Icarus

By booksofart / Charles Baudelaire / death, les fleurs du mal, sea, sky

Herbert James Draper, The Lament for Icarus, 1898 Those who love whores are well-endowed, spry, and well-fed, and cheerful-spoken. But, as for me, my arms are broken from trying to embrace a cloud.To what two peerless stars have done that kindle in the farthest skies, I owe it that my burnt-out eyes know only memories of the sun.In vain I’ve tried …

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Day: July 3, 2019

Charles Baudelaire – Invito al Viaggio / Invitation to the Voyage

Charles Baudelaire – Ho più ricordi / I have more memories

Charles Baudelaire – Al lettore / To the reader

Charles Baudelaire – La Vita Anteriore / My Former Life

Charles Baudelaire – Lamenti di un Icaro / Complaint of an Icarus

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