Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – E tu non dire / Don’t you say
Philip Wilson Steer, Young woman on the beach, 1889 Don’t you say I’m losing the meaning and the time of
16/02/2020
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Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Sfiducia
Troy Brooks, The Shallows, 2015 Tristezza di queste mie mani troppo pesanti per non aprire piaghe, troppo leggere per lasciare
16/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Rigurgito di giovinezza (a L.B.)
Hans Heyerdahl, The girl with linen hair, 1890 Umida strada cielo d’ametista lacrime e lacrime sulle tue lunghe ciglia sulle
16/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Amor Fati
Evelyn De Morgan, Aurora triumphans, 1878 When in darkness you’ll brim with a crash in a waterfall of blood —
16/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Prati / Meadows
Francesco Albani, Adonis led by cupids to Venus (Detail), 1633 Perhaps life is really such as you find it in
06/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Grido / Scream
Guido Cagnacci, The Repentant Magdalene, 1627 Don’t have a God no grave nothing fixed only the living escape being without
06/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Mi nasconda la notte e il dolce vento / Let the night and the sweet wind
Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Nocturne on the Bosphorus, 1897 Let the night and the sweet wind hide me. I was sent away
06/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Altura / The heights
Claude Monet, Water lilies, 1905 Wisteria bloomed slowly over us. The last boat crossed the lake at the foot of
05/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Inverno / Winter
Erte, Sleeping Beauty, 1983 Black threads of poplars – black threads of clouds on the red sky – and this
05/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Capodanno / New Year
Bryce Liston, Solstice, 2010 If the words tasted of snow this evening, what songs – and the stars that I’ll
05/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Morte di una stagione / Death of a season
Claudio Filippini (b. 1953), After the rain It rained all night on summer’s memories. In the dark we left inside
05/02/2020
Antonia Pozzi
Antonia Pozzi – Riflessi / Reflections
Arnold Bocklin, The Surf, 1883 Words – glassthat unfaithfullyreflects my sky –I thought of youafter sunsetin a darkened streetwhen a
05/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Notte / Night
Delphin Enjolras, The murmur of the sea, 1875 Night: dreaming about scattered enlightened windows. Hearing a clear voice from the
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Con il cielo coperto / A dull air
David Inshaw, The raven, 1971 A dull air, under a cloudy sky,full of missing distant noises,amidst my age(neither young nor
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Basta all’amore degli adoloscenti
Édouard Manet, On the beach, 1873 Basta all’amore degli adoloscenti sentirsi possedere dal sole entro la sabbia calda immoti. Do
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Se la vita sapesse il mio amore / If life knew my love
Titian (Tiziano), The Three Ages of Man, 1512 If life knew my love!I’d go tonight faraway. I’d go where the wind
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Nell’alto arido eremo
Gaetano Previati, Nocturne, 1909 Nell’ alto arido eremo salmastri venti a ridarmi dolore di luce. (E la notte di aprile
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Nel sonno incerto sogno ancora un poco
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), The Knight’s Dream, 1504 Nel sonno incerto sogno ancora un poco. È forse giorno. Dalla strada il
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Amore in elemosina chiedendo
Max Klinger, A glove, 1881 Amore in elemosina chiedendo andavo per la strada polverosa e il sole mi rideva intorno,
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Dal portiere non c’era nessuno
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Boy with a Cat, 1868 Dal portiere non c’era nessuno. C’era la luce sui poveri letti disfatti. E
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Sole senz’ombra / Sun with no shadows
Arnold Böcklin, The Island of Life, 1888 Sun with no shadows on virile abandoned bodies. Each virtue is hushed. Slowly
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Amore in elemosina
Antonio Bueno, Concerto in blu, 1973 Amore in elemosina, solfeggio. Oh luce del meriggio senza un cenno. Ritornerà più tardi,
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Il mare è tutto azzurro / The sea is completely blue
Giorgio Belloni, Calm, 1913 The sea is completely blue. The sea is completely still. In one’s heart it is almost
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Era la mia città, la città vuota / It was my city
Mike Worrall (b. 1942), A bouquet It was my city, the empty one at dawn, full with one of my
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Il rumore dell’alba / The noise of dawn
Carlo Carrà, Il pino sul mare (A pine by the sea), 1921 How loud is the noise of dawn, made
02/02/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Amore, gioventù / Love, youth
Giorgione, Sleeping Venus, c. 1508 Love, youth, joyful words, what shines on you? What shrivels you up? A smell as
31/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Poesia d’amore / Love poem
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros, 1880 The wind sways exultant, and bears leaves on the trees
30/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Green drift/Verde deriva
Gustave Courbet, Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, 1857 Evening: saddened light, slow bells ebbing away. Don’t speak
30/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – In luce di cieli
Benjamin West, Echo and Narcissus, 1805 Dagli stagni salgono nuvole beate; finirà anche il fuoco dell’aria nel fermo cuore. Cara
30/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Dolore di cose che ignoro
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Solitude, Souvenir de Vigen, 1866 Fitta di bianche e di nere radici di lievito odora e
30/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Quasi un epigramma
Salvador Dalì, Cabaret scene, 1922 Il contorsionista nel bar, melanconico e zingaro, si alza di colpo da un angolo e
30/01/2020
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac – 34th Chorus
Akos Birkas, Early Morning, 2007 I have no plansNo datesNo appointments with anybody So I leisurely exploreSouls and Cities Geographically
29/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Veleggio come un’ombra / Sailing as a shadow
Witold Pruszkowski, Falling star, 1884 Sailing as a shadow in a dozing day, unknowingly I identify myself as disposed on
29/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Non avessi sperato in te
Felice Casorati, Waiting, 1919 Non avessi sperato in te e nel fatto che non sei un poeta di solo amore
28/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Ogni giorno cerco il filo della ragione / Every day I look for
Agim Meta, The visible bears and the invisible woman, 2008 Every day I look for the strand of logic, but
28/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – E perciò non ti chiamerò al telefono
Frederick William Elwell, The wedding dress, 1911 E perciò non ti chiamerò al telefono nè avrò bisogno delle tue vene
28/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Accarezzami, amore / Caress me, my love
Angelo Dall’Oca Bianca, Stelle cadenti (Shooting stars), 1913 Caress me, my love, like the sun touching the lovely forehead of
28/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Betulle / Birch trees
Henri Camille Danger, The fireflies, 1896 You do not know: there are birch trees raising their roots at night, and
27/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Laggiù dove morivano i dannati / Down there where the damned died
Cornelis van Harleem, Fall of the titans, 1588 Down there where the damned died in decadent and crazy hell of
27/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Peace / Pace
John Liston Byam Shaw, the Woman and the Man the Serpent, 1911 Peace overflowing from heart sometimes can turn into
27/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Pescatore di spugne / Sponge fisher
Ferdinand Hodler, The dream, 1897 O sponge fisher down into my womb you have found the rare pearl of your
24/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Il bacio / The kiss
Jack Vettriano, Night geometry, 1996 The kiss quickly runs in my thoughts for a kiss I translated Homer all in
24/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Ieri sera era amore / Last night it was love
Goxwa Borg, Kiss, c. 2000 Last night it was love, you and me in life fleeting and fugitive with one
23/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Le osterie / The inns
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1895 I like dark nooks of asleep inns, where people culminate in a
23/01/2020
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese – Ascolteremo nella calma stanca / We’ll hear in tired stillness
Theo van Rysselberghe, The Violinist, 1903 We’ll hear in tired stillness the distant music of our overwhelming youth, which arched
21/01/2020
John Keats
John Keats – Oh, se un raggio di sole / O, for some sunny spell
Oreste Pizio, Venus and Adonis crowned by Love, 1910 O, for some sunny spell to dissipate the shadows of this
20/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Liberatemi il cuore / Relieve my heart
John Byam Liston Shaw, Silent Noon, 1894 Relieve my heart from this insane season of love full of secret memories.
15/01/2020
Alda Merini
Alda Merini – Ha nevicato molto sul mio destino / It snowed a lot on my destiny
Erté (1892-1990), Blossom umbrella It snowed a lot on my destiny a pouring and happy rain as the one of
15/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Neve/Snow
Ford Madox Brown, Manfred on the Jungfrau, 1842 Evening descends: again you leave us, o dear images of the earth,
14/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Un sepolto in me canta/A Burial Sings in Me
William Samuel Henry Llewellyn, Waterbaby, 1910 I exile myself; so shadow fills with myrtle, and subdued space lays me down
14/01/2020
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo – Cavalli di luna e di vulcani/Horses of Volcanoes And The Moon
Joseph Noel Paton, Dionysus and Sea Nymphs, 1853 I inhabited islands green on a motionless sea. Shores of scorched seaweed,
14/01/2020