despair

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827)

-Henry Ryland (1856–1924), Spring – It’s a world of sorrow:yet the cherry treesare in bloom. Mondo di sofferenza:eppure i ciliegisono in fiore. This is a personal translation. Please contact me if you know another English translation. Go back to album – Various

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 mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and, by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache …

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Georg Trakl – Lamento / Lament

Michael Mathias Kiefer, North Sea, 1943 Sleep and death, the dusky eaglesaround this head swoop all night long;eternity’s icy wavewould swallow the golden imageof man; against horrible reefshis purple body is shattered.And the dark voice lamentsover the sea.Sister of stormy sadness,look a timid dinghy goes downunder stars,the silent face of the night. Sonno e morte, …

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Denis Diderot

Amedeo Bocchi (1883-1976), Donna in Contemplazione Violent pleasure is like deep pain: they are both silent. I piaceri violenti sono come le sofferenze profonde: sono muti. This is a personal translation. Please contact me if you know another English translation. Go back to album – Quotes