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Italo Calvino – Aiuole per Queneau / Flowerbeds to Queneau

By booksofart / Italo Calvino / animal, flower, mystery, summer

Nicholas Kalmakoff (1873-1955), Greyhound with Nude Witch Forgotten flowerbeds, grassy-yellow,a gloomy murmur rouses you, allusion to other summers, blue-purple beetle,whilst uttering cryptic noumena:everything was, will be and is in a circle: therefore it will always beinto the endless oldnessand sparkle of ages, into the snake. Aiuole obliate gialle d’erba, saun cupo brusio smuovervi, allusionead altre estati, …

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Guido Gozzano – Il buon compagno

By booksofart / Guido Gozzano / kiss, mystery, mythology

Edmund Dulac, Circe and Ulysses, 1935 Non fu l’Amore, no. Furono i sensi curiosi di noi, nati pel culto del sogno… E l’atto rapido, inconsulto ci parve fonte di misteri immensi. Ma poi che nel tuo bacio ultimo spensi l’ultimo bacio e l’ultimo sussulto, non udii che quell’arido singulto di te, perduta nei capelli densi. …

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Guido Gozzano – L’esilio

By booksofart / Guido Gozzano / Dream, garden, mystery

Edward Burne-Jones, Pan and Psyche, 1874 Non ti conobbi mai. Ti riconosco Perché già vissi; e quando fui ministro d’un rito osceno, agitator di sistro t’ho posseduta al limite d’un bosco. Bene ravviso il sopracciglio fosco le bande fulve… Chi segnò di bistro l’occhio caprino gelido sinistro? Or ti rivedo in un giardino tosco, vergine …

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Horace (Orazio) – Satire

By booksofart / Ancient Greek Poets / mystery, street

Salvador Dalì, The Path of Enigma, 1981 Ibam forte Via Sacra… Nescio quid medi – tans nugarum, totus in illis… Go back to album – Greek and Roman

Aldo Palazzeschi – Lo sconosciuto / The stranger

By booksofart / Aldo Palazzeschi / mystery, street, sun

Renè Magritte, The great century, 1954 Have you seen him tonight? I’ve seen him. Did you see him last night? I saw him, I see him every night. Does he look at you? He doesn’t look sideways, he only looks over there, over there, where the sky begins and the earth ends, in the line …

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Antonia Pozzi – E tu non dire / Don’t you say

By booksofart / Antonia Pozzi / life, mystery, sea, sun

Philip Wilson Steer, Young woman on the beach, 1889 Don’t you say I’m losing the meaning and the time of my life, if in the sand I seek out the sun and the tears of the worlds, if I fling my greatest soul into things and I believe in staggering spells… (Transl. by D. Foglia) …

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Italo Calvino – Aiuole per Queneau / Flowerbeds to Queneau

Guido Gozzano – Il buon compagno

Guido Gozzano – L’esilio

Horace (Orazio) – Satire

Aldo Palazzeschi – Lo sconosciuto / The stranger

Antonia Pozzi – E tu non dire / Don’t you say

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