Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait de Madame P., 1930 You came in out of the night and there were flowers in your hand, now you will come out of a confusion of people, out of a turmoil of speech about you. I who have seen you amid the primal things was angry when they spoke your …
Jan van Eyck, The Virgin – detail from The Ghent Altarpiece, c. 1430 They fly – quick-wrought and quickly written, still hot from all the bitterness and bliss. My moment, hour, day, year, lifetime – smitten, twixt love and love lie on the crucifix. And I hear word of thunderstorms a-rising; spears, Amazonian, again flash …
Marina Cvetaeva – They fly – quick-wrought and quickly written Read More »
Workshop of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Venus and Adonis, XIX c. Ne’er until now have I seen anywhere A flower that on a volcano grows, But next to your heart I see nestling a rose ; — Tell me, how lives it there ? Come vive quella rosa che hai appuntato sul tuo cuore? Mai prima d’ora …
Slava Fokk, Rose, 2015 Where is our rose, friends? Tell if ye may! Faded the rose, friends, The Dawn-child of Day. Ah, do not say, Such is life’s fleetness! No, rather say, I mourn thee, rose,—farewell! Now to the lily-bell Flit we away. Dov’è la nostra rosa, amici miei? E’ appassita la rosa, figlia dell’alba. …
Alexander Pushkin – Dov’è la nostra rosa,amici miei? / Where is our rose,friends? Read More »
Gustave Caillebotte, Roses in the garden at petit gennevilliers, 1886 A flower was offered to me, Such a flower as May never bore; But I said “I’ve a pretty rose tree,” And I passed the sweet flower o’er. Then I went to my pretty rose tree, To tend her by day and by night; But …
Paris Bordone, Allegory with Mars, Venus, Flora and Cupid, 1560 ca The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world’s delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is! Friendship how rare! Love, how it sells poor …
Percy Bysshe Shelley –Mutability (The flower that smiles to-day) Read More »
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