George Grosz, John the Sex Murderer, 1918 Florence down below was a whirlpool of lights of muted tremors on wings of fire the long fleeting noises of the streetcar soared: the monstrous sluggish river glistened like a scaly serpent. Over an uncertain circle the restless mocking faces of the thieves, and I among the double …
Dino Campana – Hoodlum Nocturne/Notturno Teppista Read More »
Edward Hopper, The Lee Shore, 1941 The sails the sails the sails that crack and lash in the gale that with vain sequences swells the sails the sails the sails! That weave and weave: changeable wails that the wave that subsides hides in the changeable wave… In the last cruel crash… The sails the sails …
Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, La Sacra di S. Michele, 1830 The old castle that laughs serenely up there the melodious valley where the blue river that broken and roaring at time sings an epic winds and rests serenely in wide pools of blue: life and dream that at the bottom of the mystical valley stir the …
Federico Zandomeneghi, Promenade, c. 1890 On their virginal step kept on swaying kept on swaying their musical hair in the great radiance of the gentle sun they were three virgins and a single grace on their virginal step kept on swaying black and crispy their virginal hair they were three virgins and a single grace …
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John William Waterhouse, My sweet rose, 1909 In a momentThe roses have fadedThe petals have fallenBecause I could not forget the rosesWe looked for togetherWe found some rosesThey were her roses they were my rosesThis trip we called loveWith our blood and with our tears we made the rosesThat shined a moment in the morning …
Edward Lear, View of Florence from Villa San Firenze, 1862 I loved you in that city where on sunlit streets languid footsteps tread where a tender peace that rains at evening on the unsated unrepentant heart turns to an ambiguous violet springtime far above the pallid sky. (Transl. by A.S.Kline) Vi amai nella città dove …
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