Guido Gozzano was an Italian poet and writer. He was the prominent exponent of The Crepusculars, a group of Italian post-decadent poets inspired by French symbolists, whose works were a response to the modernization of the early 20th century.
Salvatore Quasimodo was a Sicilian novelist and poet, and one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. His works are divided into hermetic and post-hermetic period. He also translated authors from Roman and Greek antiquity. In 1959 Quasimodo won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tristan Tzara was a Romanian avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement.
Gustav Klimt, Hope, 1908 Those like me hand out dreams, even at the cost of being left dreamless… Those like me give away their soul, because a soul is like a drop of water in the desert. Those like me stretch out a hand and help you get up, while running the risk of falling …
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Summer offering, 1911 I was born in spring the twentyone not knowing that to be born insane, to open the turfs a tempest could unchain. And thus gentle Proserpina sees rain fall upon the grasses, upon the large gentle grains and always weeps at night. Perhaps it is her prayer. (Transl. by Ercole …
Alda Merini – Sono nata il ventuno a primavera / I was born in spring the twentyone Read More »
Arnold Böcklin, Triton and Nereid, 1875 I met wonders in you love wonders so new they looked like shells where I could smell the sea and simple empty beaches I got lost in that love as in a storm but I kept my heart very still because I knew so well that it loved an …
Alda Merini – Ho conosciuto in te le meraviglie / I met wonders in you Read More »
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