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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 it yearsafter his death)so he didn’t hearher last three wordsand merely understood“It’s raining guys in black trenchcoats”that’s what he painted. “Piove”disse lei“Un uomo dal cappotto neropassa per la via”disse lei.Magritte perònon la sentivapiù tanto bene(infatti …

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Giorgio Caproni – Un’idea / An idea

By booksofart / Giorgio Caproni / Allegory, art, flower

Valentin Rekunenko (b. 1955), Untitled An idea swirls in me, silly as a rose. There is nothing after us. Not even the nothingness, which would be something, at least. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Un’ idea mi frulla, scema come una rosa. Dopo di noi non c’è nulla. Nemmeno il nulla, che già sarebbe qualcosa. This …

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Alda Merini – Ieri sera era amore / Last night it was love

By booksofart / Alda Merini / art, kiss

Goxwa Borg, Kiss, c. 2000 Last night it was love, you and me in life fleeting and fugitive with one kiss and one mouth as in an abstract painting: you and me in love side by side, majestically. I bejeweled you and told it: but my feeling faded in words. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Ieri …

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Osip Mandelstam – Una fiamma disperde / A flame is in my blood

By booksofart / Osip Mandel'stam / art, life

Max Ernst,Surrealism and Painting, 1942 A flame is in my blood burning dry life, to the bone. I do not sing of stone, now, I sing of wood. It is light and coarse: made of a single spar, the oak’s deep heart, and the fisherman’s oar. Drive them deep, the piles: hammer them in tight, …

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Oscar Wilde – The portrait of Dorian Gray

By booksofart / Oscar Wilde / art, portrait

Sofonisba Anguissola, Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola, 1559 Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Mentre qui

By booksofart / J. W. Goethe / art, nature

Winslow Homer, Artists sketching in the White Mountains, 1868 Mentre qui secondo la pura, quieta natura disegno, il mio cuore, ahimè, è colmo dell’antico dolore; io vivo sempre per coloro per i quali vivere non devo. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me Go back to album – J. W. Goethe

Erich Fried – Malinteso di due surrealisti / Misunderstanding between two surrealists

Giorgio Caproni – Un’idea / An idea

Alda Merini – Ieri sera era amore / Last night it was love

Osip Mandelstam – Una fiamma disperde / A flame is in my blood

Oscar Wilde – The portrait of Dorian Gray

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Mentre qui

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