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Emily Dickinson – Presi un sorso di vita / I took one Draught of Life

Akseli Gallen Kallela, Clouds, 1883 I took one Draught of Life— I’ll tell you what I paid— Precisely an existence— The market price, they said. They weighed me, Dust by Dust— They balanced Film with Film, then handed me my Being’s worth— A single Dram of Heaven! Presi un sorso di vita – Vi dirò …

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Emily Dickinson – Immortalità / Immortality

Claude Monet, The Artist’s Garden in Argenteuil, 1873 It is an honorable thought, and makes one lift one’s hat, as one encountered gentlefolk upon a daily street,that we’ve immortal place, though pyramids decay, and kingdoms, like the orchard, flit russetly away. E’ un pensiero onorevole, e ci fa togliere il cappello, come incontrare buona gente …

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Walt Whitman – Poeti estinti, filosofi, preti / Dead poets, philosophs, priests

Paul Delvaux, The cortege, 1963 Dead poets, philosophs, priests, martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, language-shapers on other shores, nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate, I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left  wafted hither, I have perused it, own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it,) think nothing …

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