Gustav Klimt, Music, 1895 Lean over. I’ll whisper something to you: I am grateful for everything : for the chicken cartilage and for the chirr of scissors already cutting out the void for me-for it is your hem. Doesn’t matter if it is pitch-black,doesn’t matter if it holds nothing:no ovals,no limbs to count. The more …
Joseph Brodsky – Chinati, ti devo sussurrare/ Lean over, I’ll whisper something Read More »
Marc Chagall, The street performers in the night, 1957 Just now I smeared the map of the daily grind,splashing paint out of a glass;I revealed the sharp cheek-bones of the oceanon a platter of jellied meat.I read the summons of new lipson the scales of a tin fish.And youcould youplay a nocturneon a drain-pipe flute? …
Will Barnet, The nightfall, 1979 I feel an insurmountable fear in the presence of mysterious heights; I’m happy with a swallow in the heavens, and it’s the bell tower’s flight I love! And, it seems, old-time pedestrian above the abyss, on boards that give, I listen as a snowball grows and a stone clock strikes …
Giuseppe Cesari (Cavalier d’Arpino), St. Cecilia, c. 1630 May my lips rehearse the primordial silence, like a note of crystal clearness, sounding, pure from birth! Ritrovino le mie labbra, recuperino la mutezza lontana, primordiale, simile a una nota di cristallo che vibra, fin dal suo nascere, pura. Go back to album – O. Mandelstam
Auguste Hirsch, Kalliope teaching music to Orpheus, 1865 Siate, piccoli amati canti, testimoni della mia letizia; Ah, non tornerà di certo la primavera di questi giorni! Presto partirà l’amico scherzoso, l’amico mio, a cui vi ho destinati. Ahimè, anche questo cuore forse presto piangerà l’amata! Ma se, dopo la pena del distacco, il suo sguardo …
Emilio Longoni, Armonie del ruscello, 1903 Flow on, ye lays so loved, so fair, on to Oblivion’s ocean flow!May no rapt boy recall you e’er, no maiden in her beauty’s glow!My love alone was then your theme, but now she scorns my passion true.Ye were but written in the stream;as it flows on, then, flow ye too! Sperdetevi …
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Al fiume / By the river Read More »
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