Titian, Venus with Organist and Cupid , c. 1550 Sweetest Lili, for so long all my joy and all my song! Ah, now, all my pain, yet you are still all my singing too. Cara Lili, sei stata a lungo tutta la mia gioia, tutto il mio canto; adesso, ahimé, sei tutto il mio dolore, eppure sei tutto il mio canto …
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Cara Lili / Sweetest Lili Read More »
Mikhail Nesterov, Elegy. Blind Musician, 1928 Idle Youth by all things enslaved through sensitivity I’ve wasted my days. Ah! Let the moment come when hearts love as one. I told myself: wait and let no one see: and without the promise of true ecstasy. Let nothing delay this hiding away. I’ve been patient so long …
Arthur Rimbaud – Canzone della torre più alta / The song of the highest tower Read More »
Come nel chiostro vergine romita se gli azzurri del cielo, e la splendente luna e il silenzio delle stelle adora, sente il Nume, ed al cembalo s’asside e del piè e delle dita, e dell’errante estro e degli occhi vigili alle note sollecita il suo cembalo ispirata. Ma se improvvise rimembranze amore in cor le …
Pablo Picasso, Old guitarist, 1903 It begins, the lament of the guitar. The wineglass of dawn is broken. It begins, the lament of the guitar. It’s useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It cries monotonously as the water cries, as the wind cries over the snow. Impossible to silence it. It cries for …
Federico Garcia Lorca – La chitarra / The guitar Read More »
Leon Kroll, Leo Ornstein at the piano, 1918 Go, my songs, seek your praise from the young and from the intolerant, move among the lovers of perfection alone. Seek ever to stand in the hard Sophoclean light and take you wounds from it gladly. Mie canzoni, andate a cercare lode tra i giovani e gli …
John Atkinson Grimshaw, Moonlight on the Lake Roundhay, Park Leeds, 1872 Somewhere dreams will be true. There is a lonely lake Moonlit for me and you And like none for our sake. There the dark white sail spread To a vague wind unfelt Shall make our sleep‑life led Towards where the waters melt Into the …
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