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Guillaume Apollinaire – Southward

Gaston de Latouche (1854-1913), Lovers and swans, The autumn walk Zenithall those regretsthose endless gardenswhere the toad modulates a tender cry of azurethe doe of bewildered silence moves quickly passa nightingale wounded by love sings upon the roses of your body  whose roses I have gatheredour hearts hang together from the same pomegranate treeand the pomegranate flowershatched …

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – La musica, quando le soffici voci svaniscono / Music, when soft voices die

Sandro Botticelli, Spring, 1478 Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory – odours, when sweet violets sicken, live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, are heap’d for the beloved’s bed; and so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, love itself shall slumber on. La musica, quando le …

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Samuel Beckett – Musica dell’indifferenza / The music of indifference

Gustave Moreau, Hesiod and the Muse, 1891 The music of indifference heart time air fire sand of silence the landslip of loves cover their voices and let me  no longer hear myself  be silent. Musica dell’indifferenza cuore tempo aria fuoco sabbia del silenzio frana d’errori copri le loro voci ch’io non mi senta più tacere. …

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