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Bertolt Brecht – Il fumo / The smoke

Isaac Levitan, The Watermill, Sunset, 1880 The little house among trees by the lake.From the roof smoke rises.Without ithow dreary would behouse, trees and lake. La piccola casa sotto gli alberi sul lago.Dal tetto sale il fumo.Se mancassequanto sarebbero desolatila casa, gli alberi, il lago! Go back to album – B. Brecht

William Butler Yeats – The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

Rembrandt van Rijn, Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto, 1634 I heard the old, old men say,“Everything alters,and one by one we drop away.”They had hands like claws, and their kneeswere twisted like the old thorn treesby the waters.I heard the old, old men say,“All that’s beautiful drifts awaylike the waters.” Ho …

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Emily Dickinson – L’Ape non è impaurita da me / The Bee is not afraid of me

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Girl with flowers, 1888 The Bee is not afraid of me. I know the Butterfly – The pretty people in the Woods Receive me cordially – The Brooks laugh louder When I come – The Breezes madder play; Wherefore mine eye thy silver mists, Wherefore, Oh Summer’s Day? L’Ape non è impaurita da …

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