Daniele Ranzoni, Veduta del lago Maggiore dalla villa di Ada Troubetzkoy, 1872 The plants of the lake saw you one morning. The stones the goats the sweat exist outside of days like the water of the lake. The lake remains unmarked by the days’ pain and clamor. The mornings will pass, the anguish will pass, …
Hermann Behrens, Female nude with Death as a Vanitas allegory (detail), 1901 Death will come with your eyes— this death that accompanies us from morning till night, sleepless, deaf, like an old regret or a stupid vice. Your eyes will be a useless word, a muted cry, a silence. As you see them each morning …
Cesare Pavese – Death Will Come with your Eyes/Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi Read More »
John Atkinson Grimshaw, A moonlight evening, 1880 But you live elsewhere. Your gentle blood came from elsewhere. The words you say have no meeting-point with the rugged sadness of this sky. You are only a white and sweetly gentle cloud entangled one night among ancient branches. Ma vivi altrove. Il tuo tenero sangue s’è fatto …
Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet, writer and translator, considered among the major Italian authors of the 20th century. He was an antifascist and after World War II he joined the Italian Communist Party and worked on the party’s newspaper, L’Unità.
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