Domenichino, Saint John the Evangelist, 1629 After you have enriched your soulto the highest point,with books, thought, suffering,the understanding of many personalities,the power to interpret glances, silences,the pauses in momentous transformations,the genius of divination and prophecy,so that you feel able at times to hold the worldin the hollow of your hand;then, if, by the crowding …
William Mulready, A Fireside Read, 1825 When you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false or true,But …
William Butler Yeats – Quando tu sarai vecchia / When You Are Old Read More »
Vincent Van Gogh, The novel reader, 1888 I was the slightest in the House – I took the smallest Room – At night, my little Lamp, and Book – And one Geranium – So stationed I could catch the Mint That never ceased to fall – And just my Basket – Let me think – …
Emily Dickinson – In casa ero la più piccina / I was the slightest in the House Read More »
John Dykstra, Penalty box, 2016 Maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepstakes maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or a rich lesbian at the top of the hill maybe reincarnation as a frog… or $70,000 found floating in a plastic sack in the bathtub. I need help I am …
Charles Bukowski – Mangiato dalle farfalle / I am eaten by butterflies Read More »
William Blake, The Sun at His Eastern Gate, 1820 Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the …
Walt Whitman – Canto di me stesso / Song of myself, 2 Read More »
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