Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet – Nostalgia
Giorgio de Chirico, Melancholy of a beautiful day, 1913 Nostalgia never left my side throughout the journey it was right
21/04/2020
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Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba – Un Ricordo / A Memory
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Country boys, 1916 I don’t sleep. I see a road, a grove making my chest tight, anxious; where
21/04/2020
Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba – Sfuma il turchino
Renè Magritte, L’acte de foi, 1960 Sfuma il turchino in un azzurro tutto stelle. Io siedo alla finestra e guardo.
21/04/2020
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse – Adolescente
Franz von Stuck, Circle dancing, 1910 Come sfioriscono i giorni alla pari di fredde danze! Nessuno vuol ardere e splendere,
21/04/2020
Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico García Lorca – Adelina a passeggio / Saturday Paseo: Adelina
Aristide Maillol, Woman with a Parasol, 1895 Oranges do not grow in the sea neither is there love in Sevilla.
21/04/2020
- Italians
Antonio Porta – Per caso mentre tu dormi / By chance, while you’re asleep
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In bed, 1893 By chance, while you’re asleepwith my fingers I unintentionally tickle you, and you laugh,you laugh,
20/04/2020
- Italians
Elio Pagliarani – E’ nostro questo cielo d’acciaio / This sky made of steel
Salvador Dalì, Honey is sweeter than blood, 1941 This sky made of steel is ours, it doesn’t pretend to beEden,
20/04/2020
- Italians
Patrizia Cavalli – Ringrazio la sedia la scala la poltrona
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In Bed, The Kiss, 1892 Ringrazio la sedia la scala la poltronache mi accoglieva in improvvisa debolezzaquando
19/04/2020
- Italians
Ludovico Ariosto – Aventuroso carcere soave
Pietro da Cortona, Venus Appearing to Aeneas as a Huntress, c. 1635 Aventuroso carcere soave,dove né per furor né per
19/04/2020
- Italians
Guido Ceronetti – E questa vuota follia d’uomo
Salvador Dalì, Hollywood, 1947 E questa vuota follia d’uomotutti i suoi rantoli più atroci e sguaiatipoi la sua pace di
19/04/2020
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Rafael Alberti – Fiume rosso
Justyna Kopania, Hot summer rain Con le piogge non potròbagnarmi nel fiume, amante,perché va il corpo dell’acquaferito e avvolto in
19/04/2020
- Italians
Valerio Magrelli – Amo i gesti imprecisi / I Love Uncertain Gestures
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Dancing couple, 1914 I love uncertain gestures:someone stumbles, someone elsebangs his glasscan’t remember,gets distracted or the sentinelcan’t
19/04/2020
- Italians
Antonella Anedda – To Nathan Zach
Utagawa Hiroshige, Moonlight View of Tsukuda with Lady on a Balcony, 1850 Sit in front of the windowlook, but accept
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Era la vita tua lieta e gentile / Your life is pleasing and gentle
Carlo Ferranti, An Amorous Advance, c. 1908 Your life is pleasing and gentle. Along the way appeared a well-dressed gentleman,
19/04/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – O solitario intorno a una fontana / Lonely, you stand near the fountain
Maria Fortuny, Il contino, 1861 Lonely, you stand near the fountain, your face reflected in the water. The raw poetry
19/04/2020
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado – Al grande zero / To the Great Circle of Nothing
Vladimir Kush, Sunrise by the Ocean, 2000 When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingand rested, which rest it
18/04/2020
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Diane Wakoski – Il padre del mio paese / The Father of My Country
Thomas Alexander Ferguson Graham, Alone in London, 1904 My father was not in the telephone bookin my city;my father was
18/04/2020
W. Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – Essere o non essere (Monologo di Amleto)/ To be or not to be (Hamlet Monologue)
Luigi Russolo, Self-portrait with skulls, 1909 To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the
18/04/2020
Edith Sodergran
Edith Sodergran – Noi donne / We women
Otto Dix, Newborn Baby on Hands, 1927 We women, we are so close to the brown earth. We ask the
18/04/2020
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Ematologia pediatrica
Amedeo Modigliani, The Blue eyed Boy, 1916 Turbini di cranio fessi, lancinanti lampi nascosti tra le tende, le stanze disegnate
18/04/2020
R. M. Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke – Bocca di statua
Jean-Leon Gerome, Pygmalion and Galatea, 1890 La bocca lor par bocca di statua, che non si schiuse al suono, al
18/04/2020
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Carducci – Il cesarismo
Andrea Mantegna, ,The Triumphs of Caesar, c. 1492 Giove ha Cesare in cura. Ei dal delitto Svolge il diritto, e
18/04/2020
Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna – Favola
Hanna Hirsch-Pauli, Princess with a spindle, 1896 In un salone in cui gridano gli ori – sorpresi dalla luce dell’aprile
18/04/2020
G. Seferis
Giorgos Seferis – Eleni / Helen
George Barbier, La Belle Helene, 1928 Tearful bird, on sea-kissed Cyprus consecrated to remind me of my country, I moored
18/04/2020
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett – Cascando
Bartosz Dluzewski, A Couple In The Dark, 2017 Why not merely the despaired of occasion of wordshed is it not
18/04/2020
Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine – Orribile notte d’insonnia / Awful Night
George Hendrik Breitner, Reclining nude, c. 1887 Horrible night of insomnia! – without the presence of your dear blessed body
18/04/2020
Leonardo Sinisgalli
Leonardo Sinisgalli – Visita agli etruschi
Enrique Serra y Auque (1859-1918), A classical garden Non vollero rose sulle mense ma pasti sanguigni e intorno giuochi per
18/04/2020
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski – Ultime Volontà e Testamento / Last Will and Testament
Dino Valls, Vera Icon, 2007 You stop agonizing for a while thinking that maybe life’s true essence has risen to the top (temporarily) or
17/04/2020
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova – Dedica / Dedication
Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé (1874-1939), March night, Russia Mountains fall before this grief, A mighty river stops its flow, But prison
17/04/2020
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramon Jimenez – Gioia del sogno
George Elgar Hicks, The return home, 1873 Gioia del sogno, che mai uguagliò nessuna gioia reale! E che triste gioia
17/04/2020
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Bernard de Ventadorn – Quando erba nuova e nuova foglia appare / When tender grass and leaves appear
Correggio, Venus and Cupid with a Satyr, c. 1528 If I could find her all alone,sleeping or playing so for
17/04/2020
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore – O stolto, che cerchi di portare / O Fool, try to carry
Augustus Edwin Mulready, Fatigued Minstrels, 1883 O Fool, try to carry thyself upon thy own shoulders! O beggar, to come
17/04/2020
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Otto René Castillo – Eravamo così lontani / We were so far
Gustave Courtois, Persée délivrant Andromède, 1913 We were so far from each otherseas were among us,and mountains, and waters,fire and
17/04/2020
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti – 13 settembre 1966
Ron Hicks, On the phone, 2013 Le mani con un tremito del telefono stringevano il filo; mi aveva poco prima
17/04/2020
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Nazik Al-Malaika – Invito alla vita
Paolo Pagani, Jupiter and Semele, 1693 Arrabbiati, ti amo arrabbiato e ribelle, rivoluzione cocente, esplosione. Ho odiato il fuoco che
17/04/2020
Sergei Yesenin
Sergei A. Yesenin – Non ho rimpianti / I do not regret
Jules Breton, Last flowers, 1890 I do not regret, and I do not shed tears, all, like haze off apple-trees,
17/04/2020
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Mikhail Lermontov – Solitudine / Loneliness
Francesco Hayez, Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1825 It’s Hell for us to draw the fettersof life in alienation, stiff.All people prefer
17/04/2020
James Joyce
James Joyce – Ricordo degli attori nello specchio a mezzanotte / A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
Honoré Daumier, The Drama, 1860 They mouth love’s language. Gnashthe thirteen teethyour lean jaws grin with. Lashyour itch and quailing,
17/04/2020
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Raymond Queneau – Quando tu avrai un passato, Yvonne / Some day you’ll have a past, Yvonne
William Stephen Coleman (1829-1904), The Butterfly Catcher Some day you’ll have a past, Yvonne, and you’ll see what a funny
17/04/2020
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez – Epitaffio ideale di un eroe / Ideal Epitaph to a Hero
William Orpen, To the Unknown British Soldier in France, 1927 He reached his death. But his living was so intense,
17/04/2020
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Robert Louis Stevenson – Requiem
Walter Crane, Shelley’s Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, 1873 Under the wide and starry skyDig the grave and
17/04/2020
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Vera Pavlova – Non voglio un mattone dal tetto
Francesco Cairo (1607–1665), Cleopatra Non voglio un mattone dal tetto –voglio morire lentamente.Voglio morire, osservandoil corpo che secerne, gocciadopo goccia,
16/04/2020
James Joyce
James Joyce – Tilly
Joseph Farquharson, The Shortening Winter’s Day is near a Close, 1903 He travels after a winter sun,urging the cattle along
16/04/2020
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Jaime Gil de Biedma – Ultramort
Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950 Una casa deserta che io amo,a due ore da qui,mi serve di conforto.Sulle sue
16/04/2020
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Estasi
Giambattista Tiepolo, The Immaculate Conception, 1769 Accostandosi le ciglia lentamente, quasi senza voce mi chiudono nelle mani esangui una perla.
16/04/2020
Attila Jozsef
Attila Jozsef – Avvincono al tormento
Lovis Corinth, Ecce Homo, 1925 Avvincono al tormento due corde, ne sono stretto da ogni parte: il nodo non trovo
16/04/2020
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe – An Acrostic
William John Hennessy, The Pride of Dijon, 1879 Elizabeth it is in vain you say“Love not” — thou sayest it
16/04/2020
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Gerard Manley Hopkins – Porto Celeste / Heaven-Haven
Pompeo Mariani (1857-1939), La sposa del mare (Sea’s bride) A nun takes the veil I have desired to gowhere springs
16/04/2020
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Lionel Johnson – La chiesa di un sogno / The church of a dream
Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749), Prayer of the Penitent Monks Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind, around the weather-worn,
16/04/2020
R. M. Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke – Solitudine / Loneliness
Sergey A. Tutunov, Twilight, 1972 Being apart and lonely is like rain. It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains;
16/04/2020