Witold Pruszkowski, Falling star, 1884 Sailing as a shadow in a dozing day, unknowingly I identify myself as disposed on an altarpiece among many to be eaten by whoever. I believe hell is enlightened by those strange lights themselves. They want to feed on my pain because theirs, perhaps, never falls asleep. (Transl. by D. …
Alda Merini – Veleggio come un’ombra / Sailing as a shadow Read More »
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, 1805 A living whirlwind that devours the darkness, in the sense of that pain apart from whose ineluctable necessity life could not continue; good is desired, it is the consequence of an act; evil is permanent. Un turbine di vita che squarcia le …
Antonin Artaud – Il male è permanente / Evil is permanent Read More »
Edvard Munch, Self portrait in Hell, 1903 I have such faith that scorches me; certain that who will see me, will say it’s a man of ashes without realizing it was a rebirth. Ho tanta fede che mi brucia; certo, chi mi vedrà dirà è un uomo di cenere, senz’ accorgersi ch’ era una rinascita. …
Eugenio Montale – Ho tanta fede / I have such faith Read More »
Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, The Eruption of Vesuvius, c. 1821 Once only did I see the sun so blood-red. And never again. It sank ominously towards the horizon and it seemed as if someone had kicked apart the gates of hell. I asked at the observatory and now I know why. Hell we all know, …
Franz Von Stuck, Hell, 1908 Four. Ponderous. The chimes of a clock. “Render unto Ceasar… render unto God…” But where’s someone like me to dock? Where to find waiting – a lair? Were I like the ocean of ocean little, on the tiptoes of waves I’d rise, I’d strain, a tide, to caress the moon. …
Stefano Ronchi, Landscape, 2014 And I am an unhappy stranger grooking in the streets of Mexico- My friends have died on me, my lovers disappeared, my whores banned, my bed rocked and heaved by earthquake – and no holy weed to get high by candlelight and dream – only fumes of buses, dust storms, and …
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