Salvador Dalì, Sick boy, 1921 He spoke while sitting on what seemed to be the marble remnant of an ancient gate; endless the plain on the right and empty, on the left the last shadows moved down the mountain: “The poem is everywhere. Your voice sometimes travels beside it like a dolphin keeping company for …
Francois Gerard, Psyche Receiving The First Kiss Of Cupid, 1798 For joy’s sake, from my hands, take some honey and some sun, as Persephone’s bees told us. Not to be freed, the unmoored boat. Not to be heard, fur-booted shadows. Not to be silenced, life’s dark terrors. Now we only have kisses, dry and bristling …
Osip Mandelstam – Per la tua gioia, accetta dalle palme / For joy’s sake, from my hands Read More »
Antonio Canova, The Three Graces, c. 1816 The essence of classicism is to come afterwards, for order presupposes a certain disorder which has been brought under control. L’essenza del classicismo è venire dopo. L’ordine presuppone un certo disordine che esso viene a sistemare. Go back to album – P. Valery
Workshop of Giulio Romano, The Infancy of Jupiter, c. 1535 If the earth is veiled in darkness, have no fear. Do not think it is a perpetual darkness. Friend, you are close to pleasures, flowers, valleys; have courage, and step forward. Behold the early dawn! It is only a light mist that frightens our vision. …
Constantine P. Cavafy – Il poeta e la musa / The poet and the muse Read More »
Giulio Romano, Jupiter And Olympia, c. 1534 He swears every now and then to begin a better life. But when night comes with its own counsel, its own compromises and prospects– when night comes with its own power of a body that needs and demands, he returns, lost, to the same fatal pleasure. Ogni tanto …
Constantine P. Cavafy – Ogni tanto lui giura / He Swears Read More »
Lucas Cranach, The golden age, c. 1530 No one, says my lady, would she rather wed than myself, not even if Jupiter himself sought her. Thus she says! but what a woman says to a desirous lover ought fitly to be written on the breezes and in running waters. (Transl. by Leonard C. Smithers) Solo con …
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