Jean-Francois Millet, The sheepfold, Moonlight, 1860 Non sono un mietitore, checchè se ne dica. Accomodo sulle mie ginocchia la luna, mia promessa. E l’ora del pastore risuona in qualche angolo dietro il paravento dipinto della collina, sotto le palme verdeggianti del cielo deserto. Sono incline a pensare che è senza dubbio per dosare meglio la …
Gillis Mostaert (1528-1598), The Haywagon, Allegory of the vanity of the world (detail) Plates of sound where stars veer, the glass where brains are brewing sky seething with immodesties devours the nakedness of stars. A milk, bizarre and vehement, seethes in the deep firmament; a snail ascends and disturbs the placidity of clouds. Delight and …
Antonin Artaud – Vetri di suono / Plates of Sound Read More »
Domenico Gatti, Purità, 1916 In the immense loneliness, in the immeasurable ignorance in which we struggle we have no model, guide, or master other than nature; sometimes a voice suggest us to drift apart from nature, but it still comes from her. Nell’immenso isolamento, nell’immensa ignoranza in cui ci dibattiamo, non abbiamo altro modello, altra …
Maurice Maeterlinck – Nell’immenso isolamento / In an immense loneliness Read More »
Giovanni Segantini, The punishment of Lust, 1891 I mourn the lips of yesterday, lips whose kisses are yet unborn, and the old desires outworn, under sorrows hid away. Always rain on the far sky-line; always snow on the beaches gleams, while by the bolted gate of dreams crouching wolves in the grasses whine. Into my …
Maurice Maeterlinck – Desideri invernali / Wintry desires Read More »
Victor Nizovtsev, Dreams, 2013 As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We …
Maurice Maeterlinck – The Treasure of the Humble Read More »
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