Cornelis van Harleem, Fall of the titans, 1588 Down there where the damned died in decadent and crazy hell of the boundless asylum, where numb appendages wrapped themselves in linens as in a Semitic burial cloth, down there where the shadows of death licked your bare feet as they stuck out from beneath the sheets, …
Alda Merini – Laggiù dove morivano i dannati / Down there where the damned died Read More »
John Liston Byam Shaw, the Woman and the Man the Serpent, 1911 Peace overflowing from heart sometimes can turn into blood, your love touches me sometimes and then evolves into drama… (Transl. by D. Foglia) La pace che sgorga dal cuore e a volte diventa sangue, il tuo amore che a volte mi tocca e …
Ferdinand Hodler, The dream, 1897 O sponge fisher down into my womb you have found the rare pearl of your insane audacity. Be careful, try to not get bitten by the thousand-eyed octopus which revenges fates and which is said life. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Oh pescatore di spugne che sceso nel mio grembo hai …
Alda Merini – Pescatore di spugne / Sponge fisher Read More »
Jack Vettriano, Night geometry, 1996 The kiss quickly runs in my thoughts for a kiss I translated Homer all in one breath I became as white as the moon and I loved you until I died inside the urn of a glass castle which nobody knows. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Il bacio corre veloce nei …
Goxwa Borg, Kiss, c. 2000 Last night it was love, you and me in life fleeting and fugitive with one kiss and one mouth as in an abstract painting: you and me in love side by side, majestically. I bejeweled you and told it: but my feeling faded in words. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Ieri …
Alda Merini – Ieri sera era amore / Last night it was love Read More »
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1895 I like dark nooks of asleep inns, where people culminate in a profusion of singing, I like things that are cursed and light, and the deep wine glasses, where mind rejoices, as enchanted thought. Too foolish is to cry over a lost love, painful and detached: it’s …
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