Utagawa Hiroshige, Moonlight View of Tsukuda with Lady on a Balcony, 1850 Sit in front of the windowlook, but accept desperation:there is truth in the moon that shinesthough it does not rise shield-like against painit translates itself –as I have just translated from the open facing the wall –it simply links the desk to thoughtin …
Alice Pike Barney, Waterlily (Ophelia), c. 1909 Tessendo l’aria con le narici da fitta matassa una tela di versi tesseva Achmatova. Comprimendo i polmoni li liberava dai lacci in un diluvio balbettante Cvetaeva. Accoppiandosi ai lessemi nella carezza della rusalka nuotava e affondava per sempre Pavlova. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact …
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna del libro, 1480 The spoken word dazzles and deceives because it is expressed by the face, because it is seen coming out of the lips, and lips are attractive and eyes seduce. But black words on white paper are like a soul laid bare. La parola abbaglia e inganna perché è mimata …
Albert Lynch, The letter, 1890 From School-boy’s tongue no Rhet’ric we expect,nor yet a sweet Consort from broken strings,nor perfect beauty where’s a main defect.My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings,and this to mend, alas, no Art is able,‘cause Nature made it so irreparable.Nor can I, like that fluent sweet-tongued Greekwho lisp’d at first, in …
Konstantin Makovsky, The muse of Poetry, 1886 Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares! – the poets, who on earth have made us heirs of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. Sian benedetti in eterno e lodatiquei che ci diedero più nobili affetti e più nobili …
Édouard Manet, Luncheon in the studio, 1868 Love doesn’t fire me up.Pain doesn’t charm me anymore.My life is merciless.Days go by andmy lost soul screams.Maybe youthhappens while walking.In the dark of nightthe storm is heardin tears.That night at the table, to dieI decided to never write again,but to remember by livingthe past loves.Who lives on …
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