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Charles Bukowski – Ultime Volontà e Testamento / Last Will and Testament

By booksofart / Charles Bukowski / death, nightmare

Dino Valls, Vera Icon, 2007 You stop agonizing for a while thinking that maybe life’s true essence has risen to the top (temporarily) or that a minor decency, a minor sensibility has taken a gentle hold. but it’s illusion, all illusion: the crap is still crap, the old structure remains firmly in place, you’re going to have to endure the same hollow ghosts of love, the same cardboard faces,the same eyelesseyes,the old dark,the …

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Anna Akhmatova – Dedica / Dedication

By booksofart / Anna Akhmatova / Night, prison, war, winter

Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé (1874-1939), March night, Russia Mountains fall before this grief, A mighty river stops its flow, But prison doors stay firmly bolted Shutting off the convict burrows And an anguish close to death. Fresh winds softly blow for someone, Gentle sunsets warm them through; we don’t know this, We are everywhere the same, …

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Juan Ramon Jimenez – Gioia del sogno

By booksofart / Juan Ramón Jiménez / Dream, flower

George Elgar Hicks, The return home, 1873 Gioia del sogno, che mai uguagliò nessuna gioia reale! E che triste gioia quotidiana questa a cui ci adattiamo, dimenticando l’altra, l’altra, l’altra; che sa, ogni giorno, di non essere più che vano seme del fiore del sogno! Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me …

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Juana Castro – Non ti amerò domani / I won’t love you tomorrow

By booksofart / - Various / female poets, nude, spring, waiting

Bernard de Ventadorn – Quando erba nuova e nuova foglia appare / When tender grass and leaves appear

By booksofart / - Various / kiss, Sleeping

Correggio, Venus and Cupid with a Satyr, c. 1528 If I could find her all alone,sleeping or playing so for fun, I’d steal the sweetest kiss I’ve known –I lack the worth to ask for one. Lady, by God, lady, our love’s getting nowhere;time flies away while we lose the best sharewe must speak only with …

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Rabindranath Tagore – O stolto, che cerchi di portare / O Fool, try to carry

By booksofart / Rabindranath Tagore / poverty, street

Augustus Edwin Mulready, Fatigued Minstrels, 1883 O Fool, try to carry thyself upon thy own shoulders! O beggar, to come beg at thy own door! Leave all thy burdens on his hands who can bear all, and never look behind in regret. Thy desire at once puts out the light from the lamp it touches …

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Day: April 17, 2020

Charles Bukowski – Ultime Volontà e Testamento / Last Will and Testament

Anna Akhmatova – Dedica / Dedication

Juan Ramon Jimenez – Gioia del sogno

Juana Castro – Non ti amerò domani / I won’t love you tomorrow

Bernard de Ventadorn – Quando erba nuova e nuova foglia appare / When tender grass and leaves appear

Rabindranath Tagore – O stolto, che cerchi di portare / O Fool, try to carry

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