Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1895 I like dark nooks of asleep inns, where people culminate in a profusion of singing, I like things that are cursed and light, and the deep wine glasses, where mind rejoices, as enchanted thought. Too foolish is to cry over a lost love, painful and detached: it’s …
Guglielmo Ciardi, Canal Grande, 1889 This bread tastes of a memory, chewed in this poor tavern where the harbor is most littered and deserted. And I savor the beet’s bitterness, seated, on the way back home, facing the cloud-topped mountains and the lighthouse. My spirit, having vanquished one of its torments, observes with new eyes …
Umberto Saba – After sadness / Dopo la tristezza Read More »
René Magritte, The sage’s carnival, 1947 Da ubriaco, come in questa sera d’estate, anelo ad un soffio d’aria il significato. Mi piace calpestare la realtà come fosse di pietra e lasciarla intonata, intatta. Ora e per troppo tempo Manco di carne ma non è importante, forse schioccando le dita domattina potrò far tornare l’inverno e …
Luca Giordano, The Boat of Charon , 1686 Ah, Melanippus, why dost thou lament to me? How canst thou think once more the sun’s pure light to see, when over Acheron’s whirling stream thou wilt have crossed? Come, seek not after lofty things: recall the boast of Aeolus’ son, King Sisyphus, of men most sly, …
Guido Reni, Drinking Bacchus, 1623 Nay, give not up to grief, it profits nothing, nor do we remedy our ills by loathing. O Bacchus, best our cares to still it is to drink of wine our fill. Non cedere a desolazione: è imperativo. Non progrediremo lagrimando, Bicchis. Eroica medicina, vino a fiotti e stordimento. Go …
Alcaeus (Alceo) – Non cedere a desolazione / In grief Read More »
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942 We went out of our minds with the easy life, wine from morning on, hungover by evening, how can I keep this idle gaiety, your blush, O drunken plague? An agonizing ceremony in a handshake, nocturnal kisses on the streets, while the currents of speech grow heavy, and lanterns burn like …
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