Fernand Khnopff, A blue veil, 1909 I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo. Scrivevo silenzi, notti, notavo l’inesprimibile, fissavo vertigini. Go back to album – A. Rimbaud
Giorgio de Chirico, Triton and Siren, 1910 Is she an Almah?… in the first blue hours will she destroy herself like flowers of fire… In front of the splendid sweep where one may smell the enormous flowering city’s breath! It’s too beautiful! It’s too beautiful! but it is necessary – For the Fisherwoman and the …
Jean Delville, The Death of Orpheus, 1893 So long as the blade has not cut off that brain, that white, green and fatty parcel, whose steam is never fresh, (Ah! He, should cut off his nose, his lips, his ears, his belly! And abandon.) But no, truly, I believe that so long as the blade …
Coppo di Marcovaldo (1225-1276), Detail of the Hell Scene – Battistero di San Giovanni (Florence) While the red-stained mouths of machine guns ring across the infinite expanse of day; while red or green, before their posturing King, the massed battalions break and melt away; and while a monstrous frenzy runs a course that makes of …
Mikhail Nesterov, Elegy. Blind Musician, 1928 Idle Youth by all things enslaved through sensitivity I’ve wasted my days. Ah! Let the moment come when hearts love as one. I told myself: wait and let no one see: and without the promise of true ecstasy. Let nothing delay this hiding away. I’ve been patient so long …
Arthur Rimbaud – Canzone della torre più alta / The song of the highest tower Read More »
René Magritte, The castle of the Pyrenees, 1959 O seasons, O chateaux! Where is the flawless soul? The magic study I pursued, of happiness, none can elude. A health to it, each time the Gallic cock makes rhyme. Ah! There’s nothing I desire, it’s possessed my life entire. That charm has taken heart and soul …
Arthur Rimbaud – O stagioni, o castelli / O seasons, O chateaux Read More »
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