Vincent van Gogh Garden with Courting Couples: Square Saint-Pierre, 1887 Take me along empty boulevards, tell me about some nonsense, vaguely pronounce a name. The street lights mourn the summer. Two lampposts mourn the summer. Rowan bushes. A wet bench. My love, stay with me until dawn, then leave me. Remained like a shadow blurred, …
Boris Ryzhy – Cerchi e ritorni/Take me along empty boulevards Read More »
Jean-Francois Millet, Autumn landscape with a flock of turkeys, 1873 Grey mists climb the shaggy hills, Fall in rain upon their crest, ‘Neath the wind from the North- West Bellows and whitens the sea. But from wine that seethes in vats, Through the town in ev’ry street Floating odours pungent sweet Fill all men’s hearts …
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Ring around the rosey, 1906 The pomegranate green in the garden, towards which thy baby hands thou didst reach out, still stands, the tree of the scarlet flower. The orchard now lonely and silent renews its green with spring; and June once more will bring back light and warmth as her …
Elihu Vedder, Peasant girl spinning, 1867 Sweet country side whose impress I retain in my wild ways and my disdainful song, my breast where love and hate ne’er slumber long, how leaps my heart beholding thee again: I see familiar forms of hill and plain with eyes uncertain, as I trace the throng of magic …
Giosuè Carducci – Traversando la Maremma toscana / Crossing the Tuscan Maremma Read More »
Cesare Marchesini, Girasoli alla gabella, c. 2007 O thou who ‘neath the flower-clad Tuscan hill Dost slumber, by whose side our father lies, Hast thou not heard e’en now a soft voice thrill The grass upon thy grave with plaintive cries ? It is my little son who at thy chill Door knocks ; he …
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, 1805 A living whirlwind that devours the darkness, in the sense of that pain apart from whose ineluctable necessity life could not continue; good is desired, it is the consequence of an act; evil is permanent. Un turbine di vita che squarcia le …
Antonin Artaud – Il male è permanente / Evil is permanent Read More »
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