Carlo Stratta, Couple in the Drawing Room, 1890 He went pale one evening, and his voice was trembling as he tried to explain it again; his eyes were burning as though he were suffering, yet they inflicted on me such a pain; at his most tender, afire with a flame …Which was never, ever to …
Herbert James Draper, Pot pourri, 1897 I wanted to bring you roses this morning. But I had closed so many in my sash, that the knots were too tight to contain them. The knots split. The roses blew away. All blew off to the sea, borne by the wind, carried to the water, never to …
Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Bruxelles, snow effect, 1900 Non si può raccomandare il giorno con gli sforzi dei lucignoli, nè le ombre possono alzare i veli dell’epifania. Sulla terra è l’inverno, ed il fumo dei fuochi è incapace di raddrizzare le case sdraiate fianco a fianco. Panini di lampioni e sfgliate di tetti, e nella neve nero …
Fortunato Depero, Subway crowds to the underground trains, 1930 It’s a typical modern disease. I think its causes are a moral order. The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you …
Salvador Dalì, Necrophiliac Fountain Flowing from a Grand Piano, 1933 The shiv’ring piano, foaming at the mouth,will wrench you by its ravings, discompose you.“My darling,” you will murmur. “No!” I’ll shout.“To music?!” Yet can two be ever closer than in the dusk, while tossing vibrant chordsinto the fireplace, like journals, tome by tome?Oh, understanding wonderful, …
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Wojciech Weiss, Kissing on the grass, 1900 To drink from branches, take their blows, that bouncing back assault the air: “So that’s an echo?” and to end completely lost in kisses’ lair. Bere dai rami che cadono sul viso, l’ azzurro di rimbalzo solcando: “Allora è l’eco?” e alla fine smarrirsi nei baci. Go back …
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