Edvard Munch, Vampire, 1893 In tombs of gold and lapis lazuliBodies of holy men and women exudeMiraculous oil, odour of violet.But under heavy loads of trampled clayLie bodies of the vampires full of blood;Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet. In tombe d’oro e lapislazzulicorpi di santi e sante trasudanoolio miracoloso, odore di …
William Butler Yeats – Olio e sangue / Oil and blood Read More »
Paolo Veronese, Lucretia, 1585 ca Rehearsal to Ourselves Of a Withdrawn Delight – Affords a Bliss like Murder – Omnipotent – Acute – We will not drop the Dirk – Because We love the Wound The Dirk Commemorate – Itself Remind Us that we died. Riproporre a noi stessi una gioia sparita – dà un’esultanza …
Emily Dickinson – Riproporre a noi stessi / Rehearsal to Ourselves Read More »
Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888 Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes. (Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour.) In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched like a tailor Sewing a shroud for a journey By the light of the meat-eating sun. Dressed to …
Jan Toorop, The vagabonds, 1891 Find meat on bones that soon have none, And drink in the two milked crags, The merriest marrow and the dregs Before the ladies’ breasts are hags And the limbs are torn. Disturb no winding-sheets, my son, But when the ladies are cold as stone Then hang a ram rose …
Dylan Thomas – Cerca la carne sulle ossa / Find meat on bones Read More »
Louis Édouard Fournier, The funeral of Shelley, 1889 Too proud to die; broken and blind he died The darkest way, and did not turn away, A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On that darkest day, Oh, forever may He lie lightly, at last, on the last, crossed Hill, under the grass, in …
Ivan Aivazovsky, Among the waves, 1898 Here lies one whose name was writ in water. (John Keats’ Epitaph) Qui giace uno il cui nome fu scritto sull’acqua. (Epitaffio di John Keats) Go back to album – J. Keats
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