Edgar Degas, Young Woman with Ibis, 1862 A closed garden is the sparkling empire of the heart inside the arcane the treasure is shielded and bears fruit in the silence of love you catch the extraordinary bird by giving up its hunt. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Giardino chiuso l’impero scintillante del cuore dentro l’arcano il …
Alejandro Jodorowsky – Giardino chiuso / A closed garden Read More »
Maxfield Parrish, Enchantment (Cinderella), 1926 When night comes I stand on the steps and listen, stars swarm in the yard and I stand in the dark. Listen, a star fell with a clang! Don’t go out in the grass with bare feet; my yard is full of shards. Quando viene la notte, io sto sulla …
Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol in the Garden in Argenteuil, 1875 Once when I walked through the fields so still, to quit life’s turmoil, that was my will. There stood a flower at once so near that all my life saw I none so dear. I would have picked it, the flower to cherish, …
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Mentre andavo / Found Read More »
Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter van Avont, Flower Garland with the Holy Family, c. 1623 From golden showers of the ancient skies, on the first day, and the eternal snow of stars, you once unfastened giant calyxes for the young earth still innocent of scars: young gladioli with the necks of swans, laurels divine, …
Edward Burne-Jones, The Briar wood, c. 1890 There are four knights with water swords and dark is the night. The four swords will strike your heart and the roses’ world. Don’t descend into the garden. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Ci sono quattro cavalieri con spade d’acqua e buia è la notte. Le quattro spade …
Federico Garcia Lorca – Ci sono quattro cavalieri / There are four knights Read More »
Ferdinand Knab, The Castle Portal, 1881 It opens, the gate to the garden with the docility of a page that frequent devotion questions and inside, my gaze has no need to fix on objects that already exist, exact, in memory. I know the customs and souls and that dialect of allusions that every human gathering …
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