Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Mars and Venus, 1770 If my darling is stealing the day’s hours from me, she gives me hours of night in compensation.We’re not always kissing: we often talk sense: when she’s asleep, I lie there filled with thought.Often I’ve even made poetry there in her arms, counted hexameters gently there on my fingers over her body. She …
Egon Schiele, Crouching woman with green headscarf, 1914 Brief note: to self. Time to take myself in hand. I have been staggering about lugubrious, black, bleak, sick. Now to build into myself, to give myself backbone, however much I fail. Breve appunto: a me stessa. E’ ora di darmi una controllata. Ho vagato in giro …
Gustave Courbet, Woman with a parrot, 1866 Better that every fiber crack and fury make head, blood drenching vivid couch, carpet, floor and the snake-figured almanac vouching you are a million green counties from here, than to sit mute, twitching so under prickling stars, with stare, with curse blackening the time goodbyes were said, trains …
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Seated Bather, 1883 I should sit on a rock off Cornwall and comb my hair.I should wear tiger pants, I should have an affair.We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. Dovrei pettinarmi i capelli seduta su uno scoglio in Cornovaglia.Dovrei portare calzoni tigrati, avere un amante.Dovremmo incontrarci in un’altra …
John Collier, Lady Godiva, 1898 I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it— A sort of walking miracle, my skin bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot a paperweight, my face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin o my enemy. Do I terrify?— The nose, the …
Paul Baudry, The pearl and the wave, 1862 Crushed by the overwhelming cloud depth of basalt and lavas by even the enslaved echoes of a trumpet without power what sepulchral shipwreck (you know it, slobbering there, foam) among hulks the supreme one flattened the naked mast too or that which, furious mistake of some noble …
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