Thomas Dewing, Summer, 1890 Light in the forest, music of light, a darting elated and shining melody, shadows’ clamour, halos, tone filters, and caresses, caresses again, turmoil of the flesh, scents to the eyes, colours bite, suck, lips carefully opened, bright and resonant the world springs, the world is a glowing singing thrill, light in …
Sibilla Aleramo – Luce nella selva / Light in the forest Read More »
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le moulin de la Galette, 1876 I was beginning to get ready for life and headed wherever the world was most exciting. I well recall the rattle of rosaries at fairground stalls like rain on a tin roof, and the girls, as they strolled among the stalls, nervously clutching their scarves, …
Jaroslav Seifert – Allora mi preparavo alla vita / I was beginning to get ready for life Read More »
Jean Béraud, Soirée in Hotel Caillebotte, 1878 I will never forget it (did it happen-who cares?) Burnt and split by the sunset blaze Was the pallid celestial vast, and some flares Came to light in the yellow space. There I sat by the window, in a crowded chamber. Fiddlesticks were singing again. And I sent …
Sewell Collins, A new constellation, 1910 Stelle lassù, inequivocabilmente chiare; il mio cuore sulla terra, inequivocabilmente chiaro. Magnifica notte di stelle, noi siamo una cosa sola. Non siedo, tremando, su una fune di stelle che potrebbero spezzarla? Tempo, sei tu, abisso sonnolento, che mi provochi sbadigliando? Pericolo per i piedi stanchi della danzatrice, pericolo per …
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Shepherdess, 1887 The young girl comes from the fields about the set of sun, bearing her swath of grass, and in her hand a bunch of roses and violets, as is her custom, for, tomorrow’s holiday to make more beautiful her breast and hair. And the old woman sits upon the steps among …
Giacomo Leopardi – Il sabato del villaggio/Saturday Evening in the Village Read More »
Winslow Homer, Summer Night, 1890 Blue is the night, and the moon is glancing , there was a time, I was young and handsome. So irretrievable and so persistent all has gone by…all is past …and distant… Cold is my heart and so dim is my sight… Blue is my happiness! Moonlit the night! Una …
Sergei A. Yesenin – Una sera azzurra / Blue is the night Read More »
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