Pompeo Mariani (1857-1939), La sposa del mare (Sea’s bride) A nun takes the veil I have desired to gowhere springs not fail,to fields where flies no sharp and sided hailand a few lilies blow.And I have asked to bewhere no storms come,where the green swell is in the havens dumb,and out of the swing of …
Gerard Manley Hopkins – Porto Celeste / Heaven-Haven Read More »
Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749), Prayer of the Penitent Monks Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind, around the weather-worn, gray church, low down the vale: the Saints in glorious vesture shake before the gale; the glorious windows shake, where still they dwell enshrined; old Saints by long dead, shrivelled hands long since designed: there still, …
Lionel Johnson – La chiesa di un sogno / The church of a dream Read More »
Jacopo Ligozzi, Agony in the Garden, c.1587 Novecento crepuscoli attendevano una gioia,mentre vivevodimenticato, abbandonato, disprezzato,Calpestato come il ponte sull’acqua.Una sera perònell’ultimo raggiodella luna, del nettare e dell’acqua,scorgeva lo spirito assortocome se una nuvola a sera prendesse forma e consistenza,come se l’immenso cielo si aprisse e rilucesseinattesoe sopprimesse per sempre l’infelice spirito.E la salvezza che l’uomo …
Antonio Mancini, Lo studio, 1875 Don’t marvel at my sadness!And don’t ask me about it.I wouldn’t know how to answer youexcept with vain words,my God, so vainthat I’d break down in tears as if I were about to die.My tears would have the airof counting a rosary of sadnessbefore my soul, sorrowful seven times over.But …
Masaccio, Crucifixion of St. Peter, 1426 Saints are not perfectbut they madly love God. I santi non sono perfettima amano Dio alla follia. This is a personal translation. Please contact me if you know another English translation. Go back to album – Quotes
Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, Ahasuerus at the End of the World, c. 1900 Non coerceri a maximo, contineri tamen a minimo divinum est. *** To suffer no restriction from anything however great, and yet to be contained in the tiniest of things, that is divine. *** Non esser costretto da ciò che è più grande, essere contenuto …
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