Wassily Kandinsky, The golden sail, 1903 The flesh is sad, alas! – and I’ve read all the books. Let’s go! Far off. Let’s go! I sense that the birds, intoxicated, fly deep into unknown spume and sky! Nothing – not even old gardens mirrored by eyes – can restrain this heart that drenches itself in …
Fitz Henry Lane, Lumber schooners at evening on Penobscot Bay,1863 To the sole task of voyaging beyond an India dark and splendid – Goes time’s messenger, this greeting, cape that your stern has doubled as on some low yard plunging along with the vessel riding skimmed in constant frolicking a bird bringing fresh tidings that …
Caspar David Friedrich,The Stages of Life, 1835 So much living. What’s the use? The path is boring and love is not enough. So much hurry. What’s the use? To take the boat which goes nowhere. Come back, my friends. Come back to your source. Don’t spill the soul into the glass of death. (Transl. by …
Federico Garcia Lorca – Tanto vivere / So much living Read More »
Christian Vincent, Certain Uncertainties, 2007 Una nave non può sempre viaggiare, né gorgheggiare un usignolo. Solo una volta io volevo vivere e una volta morire! Stanca, come i ragazzi dalla tombola, io m’ alzerò dal gioco, felice di non credere che ci sono altri mondi. Do you know this translation in English? Please contact me …
Marina Cvetaeva – Una nave non può sempre viaggiare Read More »
Odilon Redon, Sailing boat, 1900 Ashglory behind your shaken-knotted hands at the threeway. Pontic erstwhile: here, a drop, on the drowned rudder-blade, deep in the petrified oath, it roars up. (On the vertical breathrope, in those days, higher than above, between two painknots, while the glossy Tartarmoon I dug myself into you and into you.) …
Albert Lynch (1851-1912), The Jolly Boat My poor heart dribbles at the stern My heart covered with caporal They squirt upon it jets of soup My poor heart dribbles at the stern Under the gibes of the whole crew Which burst out in a single laugh, My poor heart dribbles at the stern My heart …
Paul Verlaine – Il cuore defraudato / The cheated Heart Read More »
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