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Percy Bysshe Shelley –The Birth Place Of Pleasure

Edward Robert Hughes, Night with her train of stars, 1912 At the creation of the Earth pleasure, that divinest birth, from the soil of Heaven did rise, wrapped in sweet wild melodies –  like an exhalation wreathing  to the sound of air low-breathing through Aeolian pines, which make a shade and shelter to the lake …

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Samuel Beckett – Musica dell’indifferenza / The music of indifference

Gustave Moreau, Hesiod and the Muse, 1891 The music of indifference heart time air fire sand of silence the landslip of loves cover their voices and let me  no longer hear myself  be silent. Musica dell’indifferenza cuore tempo aria fuoco sabbia del silenzio frana d’errori copri le loro voci ch’io non mi senta più tacere. …

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