John Macallan Swan, Orpheus, 1896 Let us look for a third tiger. This one will be a form in my dream like all the others, a system, an arrangement of human language, and not the flesh-and-bone tiger that, out of reach of all mythologies, paces the earth. I know all this; yet something drives me …
Jorge Luis Borges – L’altra tigre / The other tiger Read More »
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer and poet. He is regarded as the father of the magic realist movement. His main topics are dreams, philosophy and mythology.
Frank Cadogan Cowper, The Blue Bird, 1918 With a slit tongue and open eyes the nightingale on the ramparts Eyes of stored-up pain and feathers of blood the nightingale on the ramparts Feathers of blood and brief dazzle fresh water given birth in the throat the nightingale on the ramparts Water that runs stricken with …
Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet and diplomat, who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
D. Ridgway Knight (1839-1924), A pensive moment The black swallows will return to hang their nests on your balcony, and once again will knock in play against your window panes; but those that stopped their flight and perched to observe your beauty and my good luck, those who learned to know our names … those …
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer – Torneranno le brune rondinelle / The black swallows will return Read More »
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was a Spanish Romanticist poet and writer and he is considered the founder of modern Spanish lyricism.
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