Edvard Munch, Self Portrait By the Window, 1940 There’ll be no one in the house, save for twilight. All alone, the winter day will be aroused from the curtains left undrawn. Only clusters, wet and white, flashing where the wind propels, only roofs and snow, – besides roofs and snow, – nobody else. Frost, again, …
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Philip Hermogenes Calderon, With the river, 1869 A boat is beating in the breast of the lake. Willows hang over, tickling and kissing neckline and knuckles and rowlocks – O wait, this could have happened to anyone, listen! This could be used in a song, to beguile. This then would mean-the ashes of lilac, richness …
Marc Chagall, Lovers in the moonlight, 1949 Here a riddle has drawn a strange nailmark. To sleep now! I’ll reread, understand with the light of the sun, but until I am wakened, to touch the beloved as I do has been given to none. How I touched you! So touched were you even by the …
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Oskar Kokoschka, Pietà, 1909 I used to glorify the poor, not simply lofty views expressing: their lives alone, I felt, were true, devoid of pomp and window-dressing. No stranger to the manor house, its finery and lordly tenor, I was a friend of down-and-outs, and shunned the idly sponging manner. For choosing friendship in the …
Alexandre Cabanel, Ophelia, 1883 When Desdemona sang a ditty- In her last hours among the living- It wasn’t love that she lamented, And not her star-she mourned a willow. When Desdemona started singing, With tears near choking off her voice, Her evil demon for her evil day Stored up of weeping rills a choice. And …
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Jan Vermeer, The Glass of Wine, c. 1660 A box of glazed sour fruit compact, my narrow room. And oh the grime of lodging rooms this side the tomb! This cubbyhole, out of superstition, I chose once more. The walls seem dappled oaks; the door, a singing door. You strove to leave; my hand was …
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