Sergei Yesenin

Sergei A. Yesenin – E non tormentarmi con i divieti / Don’t torment me with forbidden things

Ambrogio Antonio Alciati, Il convegno, 1918 And don’t torment me with forbidden things, please don’t even talk about it. I was born poet  and as a poet I want to kiss you. E non tormentarmi con i divieti, ti prego, non parlarne nemmeno. Sono nato poeta  e come poeta voglio baciarti. Do you know a …

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Sergei A. Yesenin – Arrivederci, amico mio / Goodbye, my friend

Édouard Manet, Suicide, 1887 Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My love, you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part  and be reunited by and by. Goodbye: no handshake to endure. Let’s have no sadness — furrowed brow. There’s nothing new in dying now  though living is no newer. (Written with his blood before …

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