Edward Burne-Jones, The Love Song, 1877 And how could we have sung with the foreign foot on our heart, among the dead abandoned in the squares on the grass set hard with ice, at the lamb-like cry of children, at the black howl of the mother advancing on her son crucified on the telegraph pole? …
Salvatore Quasimodo – Alle fronde dei salici/On the branches of the willows Read More »
Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl, Seaside cemetery, 1897 Day after day: the evil words and the blood and gold. I see in you, my fellow creatures, monsters of the earth. Pity has fallen at your sting and the gentle cross has left us. I can’t go back to my Elysium. At the sea’s edge and in the savaged …
Salvatore Quasimodo – Giorno dopo giorno/Day after day Read More »
Salvatore Quasimodo was a Sicilian novelist and poet, and one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. His works are divided into hermetic and post-hermetic period. He also translated authors from Roman and Greek antiquity. In 1959 Quasimodo won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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