George Elgar Hicks, The return home, 1873 Gioia del sogno, che mai uguagliò nessuna gioia reale! E che triste gioia quotidiana questa a cui ci adattiamo, dimenticando l’altra, l’altra, l’altra; che sa, ogni giorno, di non essere più che vano seme del fiore del sogno! Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me …
Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749), Prayer of the Penitent Monks Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind, around the weather-worn, gray church, low down the vale: the Saints in glorious vesture shake before the gale; the glorious windows shake, where still they dwell enshrined; old Saints by long dead, shrivelled hands long since designed: there still, …
Lionel Johnson – La chiesa di un sogno / The church of a dream Read More »
Carl Anderson, Mendelssohn composing Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1918 L’uomo, sopraffatto dall’ignoto inumano, dall’oscura tenebra degli estremi, cerca la familiarità delle cose miste, dei luoghi intermedi dove regnano il linguaggio e il sogno. Perchè la vita non è vivibile che nella regione impura e temperata dell’intermedio. Do you know this quote in English? Please contact me …
Joan Mirò, The Tilled Field, 1923 It slept in you like a dry fibroma, like a thin tapeworm, a dream, now it crushes the gravel, now it shakes its own shadow; now it screeches, swallows, urinates, having always waited for the taste of camomile, the rabbit’s temperature, the noise of the hail, the shape of …
Kees van Dongen, Quiet, 1918 There are intervals, but they are between dreams, and there is no consciousness left of them. The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. Ci sono intervalli, ma fra un sogno e l’altro, e non ne rimane coscienza. Il mondo attorno a noi si dissolve, …
Henry Miller – Tropico del Cancro / Tropic of Cancer Read More »
Hendrik Goltzius, The Sleeping Danaë Being Prepared to Receive Jupiter, 1603 Why are you surprised? Why are you astonished,when my teacher was a dream,and in my anxiety I’m afraidI may wake up again and find myselfonce more in my lockedcell? And even if that doesn’t happen,merely dreaming it might is enough:for in that way I …
Pedro Calderón de la Barca – La vita è sogno / Life is a dream Read More »
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