Arkhip Kuindzhi, Sunset with trees, 1890 ca Sei arrivato quando il mio giorno allungava il passo e io cercavo ombre sui miei talloni. Mi inseguivano le ombre e non le potevo calpestare nè ignorare nè uccidere. Mi inseguivano e basta. In silenzio. Come le colpe dopo l’inverno quando il tempo sosta nel bosco dove volano …
Jan Gossaert (Mabuse), Adam and Eve, 1525 If space and time, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The fly that lives a single day Has lived as long as we. But let us live while yet we may, While love and life are free, For time is time, and runs away, Though sages …
Paul Fischer, A street scene in winter, Copenhagen, 1901 The winter evening settles downWith smell of steaks in passageways.Six o’clock.The burnt-out ends of smoky days.And now a gusty shower wrapsThe grimy scrapsOf withered leaves about your feetAnd newspapers from vacant lots;The showers beatOn broken blinds and chimney-pots,And at the corner of the streetA lonely cab-horse …
Andy Warhol, Letter to the world (The kick), 1986 I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are …
Camille Pissarro, Poultry Market, Pontoise,1892 They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, And along the trampled edges of the street I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. The brown waves of fog toss up to me Twisted faces from the bottom of the street, And tear from …
Sarah Stilwell Weber, Woman with Leopards, 1906 Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin;And breastless creatures under groundLeaned backward with a lipless grin.Daffodil bulbs instead of ballsStared from the sockets of the eyes!He knew that thought clings round dead limbsTightening its lusts and luxuries.Donne, I suppose, was such anotherWho found …
T. S. Eliot – Whispers of Immortality/ Bisbigli d’immortalità Read More »
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