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Fyodor Tyutchev – Ancora mi struggo per l’angoscia dei desideri / Still love torments me

René Magritte, Shéhérazade, 1950 Still love torments me with a vengeance, still now my soul cries out to you — and through the veiled mists of remembrance  still shines your image, bright and true… An image treasured and pervasive — unfading, never lost to sight, unchanging, hauntingly elusive: a star set in the vault of …

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Vladimir Mayakovsky – To Shop Signs

James Ensor, Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889, 1888 Read those iron books! To the flute of the gilded letter  will sprout glamorous beetroot  and smoked sardines and salmon. And once you turn joyous and pranky  among the constellations of ‘Maggi’,  a formidable undertaker  will sternly parade his sarcophagi. And when, sullen and dismal,  the …

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Guillaume Apollinaire – Twilight

Konstantin Somov, Masquerade, 1902 Brushed by the shadows of the deadOn the grass where day expiresColumbine strips bare admires her body in the pond insteadA charlatan of twilight formedBoasts of the tricks to be performedThe sky without a stain unmarredIs studded with the milk-white starsFrom the boards pale HarlequinFirst salutes the spectatorsSorcerers from BohemiaFairies sundry …

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