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Yosano Akiko – Appoggio il mio corpo / I lean my body
Sergio Cerchi (Contemporary), Autumn I lean my body against the gate,lost in limitless thoughts,and I look at the autumn windblowing on
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca – La vita è sogno / Life is a dream
Hendrik Goltzius, The Sleeping Danaë Being Prepared to Receive Jupiter, 1603 Why are you surprised? Why are you astonished,when my
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- Quotes
Virginia Woolf – A Room Of One’s Own
Leon Spilliaert, Young woman on a stool, 1909 I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I
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Luis de Góngora – Alla memoria della morte e dell’inferno / To the Memory of Death and Hell
Eugene Delacroix, The Barque of Dante, 1822 Plebeian urns and royal tombs: go inand do not fear to go, O
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Luis Sepúlveda – La più bella storia d’amore / The most beautiful love story
Marcus Stone, In love, 1888 The last sound of your goodbye,I told him that I knew nothingand that it wasthe
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Tomas Tranströmer – Pagina di libro notturno / A page of the night-book
Henri Le Sidaner, The gazebo, Gerberoy, 1929 I stepped ashore one May nightin the cool moonshinewhere grass and flowers were
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Juana Ines de la Cruz – Sonnet V
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), Susanna and the Elders, c. 1555 He who, most ungrateful, leaves me, I belove;and he who, devoted,
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca – La vita è sogno / Life is a dream
Pablo Picasso, The dawn serenade, 1965 What man is there alive who’d seek to reignsince he must wake into the
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Mikhail Lermontov – Sulla strada esco solo / I Go Out On The Road Alone
John Atkinson Grimshaw, A Yorkshire Lane in November, 1873 I come out to the path, alone,night and wildness are referred
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Li Bai (Li Po) – Tristezza d’autunno / By the Great Wall
Katsushika Hokusai, Young Woman with Origami, 1798 He rides his white charger by the Fortalice of Gold,she wanders in dreams
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Harry Martinson – Appello/Appeal
Jack Vettriano (b. 1951), Tango dancers The full moon shines in the sea,and you in my heart. The bank expects
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Olavo Bilac – Sonnet XIII
Marc Chagall, Lovers in the moonlight, 1938 “Well (thou´ll say) hearing stars! Certainlythou´ve lost your mind!” And I´ll say to
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Alfred de Musset – Tristezza / Sorrow
Annibale Carracci, The penitent Magdalene in a landscape, c. 1598 I lost my strength and my life,my friends and my
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Anne Hebert – Gli offesi / The Offended
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Il Quarto Stato (The Fourth Estate), 1901 By rank of hunger, the indigents were lined upby
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Tristan Corbiere – Ore / Hours
Thomas Jones Barker, The faithful knight, 1860 Alms to the highwayman in pursuit!Evil eye to the luring eye!Blade against blade
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Gerard de Nerval – Viale del Lussemburgo / A path in the Luxembourg Gardens
Walter Crane, Art and Life, 1907 She passed me, the young lady,lively and swift as a swallow,in her hand a
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Jules Laforgue – The cigarette
Fernand Khnopff, The Cigarette, 1912 Yes, this world is flat and boring: as for the other, bullshit!I myself go resigned
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Gottfried Benn – Una parola / A word
Caspar Wolf, Lower Grindelwald Glacier with lightning,1775 A word, a phrase — from ciphers climbknown life, sudden sense.The sun stops,
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Friedrich Schiller – Columbus
Salvador Dalì, The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1958 Steer, bold mariner, on! albeit witlings deride thee,and the steersman
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Friedrich Holderlin – A metà della vita / Half Of Life
Vincent Sellaer, Leda and the Swan, c. 1550 With its yellow pearsand wild roses everywherethe shore hangs into the lake,o
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Erich Fried – Malinteso di due surrealisti / Misunderstanding between two surrealists
René Magritte, Golconda, 1953 “It’s raining”she said“guys in black trenchcoatsare passing by”she said.But Magrittedidn’t get herthat exactly anymore(for she said
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Anne Bradstreet – Prologue
Albert Lynch, The letter, 1890 From School-boy’s tongue no Rhet’ric we expect,nor yet a sweet Consort from broken strings,nor perfect
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Alexander Pope – An essay on man
Piero di Cosimo, The Myth of Prometheus, 1515 But errs not Nature from this gracious end,from burning suns when livid
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Robert Burns – Vecchi tempi andati / Auld Lang Syne
Vincent van Gogh, The Drinkers (after Honoré Daumier), 1890 Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and never brought to mind?Should auld acquaintance
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Thomas Hardy – Il caso / Hap
Adam Elsheimer, The Flight into Egypt, 1609 If but some vengeful god would call to mefrom up the sky, and
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Robert Louis Stevenson – Allegre compagne / Merry companions
Pompeo Mariani, Le perdute a Montecarlo, 1909 Ei! merry companions,your madness infects me.My whole soul rises and falls and leaps
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William Wordsworth – L’arcobaleno / The rainbow
Jacob Hoefnagel, Orpheus charming the animals, 1613 My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky:so was it
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William Wordsworth – Un poeta / A poet
Hans Andersen Brendekilde, Springtime, the first anemones, 1889 How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold?Because the lovely little flower is
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William Wordsworth – Poeti / Poets
Konstantin Makovsky, The muse of Poetry, 1886 Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, who gave us nobler loves, and
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David Herbert Lawrence – Consapevole / Aware
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Evening mood, 1882 Slowly the moon is rising out of the ruddy haze,divesting herself of her golden shift,
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David Herbert Lawrence – In barca / In a boat
Max Pirner, Daemon love, 1893 See the stars, love,in the water much clearer and brighterthan those above us, and whiter,like
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Christopher Smart – Sabato / For Saturday
Georges Braque, Birds, 1962 Now’s the time for mirth and play,Saturday’s an holyday;praise to heav’n unceasing yield,I’ve found a lark’s
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Alfred Tennyson – E’ caduta una splendida lacrima/There has fallen a splendid tear
Silvio Allason, Kissing through the gate, 1900 There has fallen a splendid tearfrom the passion-flower at the gate.She is coming,
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Thomas Hardy – Toni neutri / Neutral tones
Isaac Levitan, Waterlilies, 1895 We stood by a pond that winter day,and the sun was white, as though chidden of
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Adrienne Rich – Per i morti/For the dead
Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Maude Abrantes, 1907 I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to
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Quotes / Citazioni
Here you can find various aphorisms and quotes by writers, philosophers and artists. / Qui puoi trovare aforismi e citazioni
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Edoardo Sanguineti
Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010)
Edoardo Sanguineti was an Italian poet, writer and translator. During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde
05/04/2020
Mario Luzi
Mario Luzi – Vent’anni
Henri Le Sidaner, The mirror, 1900 Perdono pe’ nostri dolci peccati per avere spesso guardato teneramente dissiparsi il giorno dall’ombra
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Elio Pecora
Elio Pecora – Mai che l’attimo si fermi / The moment never stops
Man Ray, Dora Maar, 1936 The moment never stops,to look at, to understand.An endless running.Grasping shreds.Hearing cut off words,halfway promises
05/04/2020
Elio Pecora
Elio Pecora – Posso anche dire che l’amore è eterno / I could even say that love is eternal
Vincenzo Irolli (1860-1942), Portrait of a Young Lady I could even say that love is eternal,that it lasts forever if
05/04/2020
Mario Luzi
Mario Luzi – Di nuovo gli astri d’amore traversano / Once more the stars of love cross
Arnold Böcklin, Honeymoon, 1890 Once more the stars of love cross clear over our cloudy heads there where we sit
04/04/2020
Giovanni Raboni
Giovanni Raboni – L’iperbole / Hyperbole
Amedeo Modigliani, Nude on a Blue Cushion, 1917 The hyperbole you love,the one you are: I love youin the curve
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Giovanni Raboni
Giovanni Raboni – Per nessuna ragione
Luigi Miradori, called Genovesino, Sleeping Cupid (Vanitas), c. 1652 Per nessuna ragione, sapendo quello che succede, mi vorrei risvegliare in
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Alfonso Gatto
Alfonso Gatto – Solitudine / Loneliness
Alfred Sisley, Rest along the Stream. Edge of the Wood, 1878 Dream of faint shore: sky risen from love came
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Alfonso Gatto
Alfonso Gatto – Quasi un ricordo / Almost a memory
Quint Buchholz, Slowest Movement, 2009 It seemed to us we met by chance in the forgotten hour. It was the
03/04/2020
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Camillo Sbarbaro – Le lucciole / The fireflies
Arnold Böcklin, Villa by the Sea, 1878 Do you remember, my very first beloved, the pattern of the fireflies over
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Leonardo Sinisgalli
Leonardo Sinisgalli – Qui accosto alla siepe
Francesco Paolo Michetti, Back to the sheepfold, 1910 Qui accosto alla siepe ove t’ascolto Appennino fa radice la sera e
01/04/2020
Dario Bellezza
Dario Bellezza – E’ avventizio il mio essere reale
Antonio Ligabue, Autoritratto con berretto da motociclista, 1955 E’ avventizio il mio essere reale.Sleale è insistere su chi sono io.Il
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Dario Bellezza
Dario Bellezza – Le trombe squilleranno
George Underwood, Obviously six believers, 2010 Le trombe squillerannol’incubo sordoallora forse ti rivedrònon più di carnecon un altro al latoorgoglioso
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