William Blake, The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, 1805 A living whirlwind that devours the darkness, in the sense of that pain apart from whose ineluctable necessity life could not continue; good is desired, it is the consequence of an act; evil is permanent. Un turbine di vita che squarcia le …
Antonin Artaud – Il male è permanente / Evil is permanent Read More »
Gillis Mostaert (1528-1598), The Haywagon, Allegory of the vanity of the world (detail) Plates of sound where stars veer, the glass where brains are brewing sky seething with immodesties devours the nakedness of stars. A milk, bizarre and vehement, seethes in the deep firmament; a snail ascends and disturbs the placidity of clouds. Delight and …
Antonin Artaud – Vetri di suono / Plates of Sound Read More »
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 …
Federico Rossano (1835-1912), Winter I haven’t locked the door, nor lit the candles, you don’t know, don’t care, that tired I haven’t the strength to decide to go to bed. Seeing the fields fade in the sunset murk of pine-needles, and to know all is lost, that life is a cursed hell: I’ve got drunk …
Anna Akhmatova – In una notte bianca / White night Read More »
Roberto Ferri, The eternal farewell, c. 2005 I’m so absorbed by the love of her, as I would have drank from her blood. Sono così assorbito nell’amore di lei, come avessi bevuto dal suo sangue. Do you know a different English translation? Please contact me, this is a personal translation Go back to album – …
Henri-Paul Motte, The bride of Belus, 1885 I shut my doors on that dark guilt, I bolt the door, each door I bolt. Blood quickens, gonging in my ears: The panther’s tread is on the stairs, Coming up and up the stairs. Entro nella torre delle mie paure chiudo la porta su quella oscura colpa, …
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