Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Shy, 1883 Today that I was waiting, you did not come. And I know what your absence says, your absence was a tumultuous whirl, in the emptiness you left behind, like a star. It says that you will not love me. Like a Summer storm that announces itself then recedes, similarly you …
John Everett Millais, Autumn leaves, 1856 Just as the colors of seasons change, so do the moods and thoughts of men. All in the world is but fickle time. And here is already the pallid, sepulchral Autumn, while just yesterday was reigning a flourishing, almost eternal, Summer. (Transl. by A. Baruffi) Come varia il colore …
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Tempo che muta / Times change Read More »
Rene Magritte, The double secret, 1927 Our memories, these exceedingly long shadows of our brief body, this tail of death that we leave behind as we live, the dreadful and lasting memories, here they appear already: melancholic and mute ghosts agitated by a funereal wind. And by now you are nothing more than a memory. …
Marc Chagall, Solitude, 1933 You flew away like a dove and got lost yonder, to the East. Yet remained the places that saw you and the hours of our encounters. Deserted hours, places that to me became a sepulcher of which I am the guardian. (Transl. by A. Baruffi) Volata sei, fuggita come una colomba …
Felice Casorati, Platonic conversation, 1925 We do not know each other. I think of those days when, lost in time, we met, of our regrettable intimacy. We have always left each other without goodbyes, with regrets and excuses from far away. We indeed respected each other at pace, cautious beasts, skilled hunters, to act laboriously …
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The first kiss, 1890 O youth, innocence, illusions, time with no sin, golden age! After you are past and gone one uses to regret you as a lost treasure. I do know that you were a misfortune. (Transl. by A. Baruffi) O gioventù, innocenza, illusioni, tempo senza peccato, secol d’oro! Poi che trascorsi …
Vincenzo Cardarelli – Illusa gioventù / Deluded youth Read More »
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