Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, Venus mourning the death of Adonis, ca 1642 Gonfio di male io – memore più di un sordido evento – di ben peggio capace,composto tuttavia contemplo la natura, e giorno e notteassorbo le gioie della vita, e attendo la morteperfettamente equanimea causa del tenero mio amore infinito per colui che amo,a causa …
Louis Welden Hawkins, Procession of souls – Christmas, 1893 I have said that the soul is not more than the body, and I have said that the body is not more than the soul, and nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s self is, and whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to …
Walt Whitman – Canto di me stesso / Song of myself, 48 Read More »
Edvard Munch, Starry night, 1893 O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night – O moody, tearful night! O great star disappear’d – O the black murk that hides the star! O cruel hands that hold me powerless – O helpless soul of me! O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. O stella possente che …
Anastasia Matveeva, Evening, 2016 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, and the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, and thought of him …
Henri Rousseau, The Snake Charmer, 1907 In the swamp in secluded recesses,a shy and hidden bird is warbling a song. Solitary the thrush,the hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements,sings by himself a song. Song of the bleeding throat,death’s outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,if thou wast not granted to sing …
William Blake, The Sun at His Eastern Gate, 1820 Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the …
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