Edward Atkinson Hornel, Idyl in spring, 1905 All that is leftof the magic of the fair:is this little trumpet,of blue and green tin,blown by a girlas she walks, barefoot, through the fields.But within its forced noteare all the clowns, white ones and red ones,the band all dressed in gaudy gold,the merry-go-round, the calliope, the lights.Just …
Corrado Govoni – La trombettina / The little trumpet Read More »
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Spring (detail), 1894 The power of the good has taken refuge in the nature of the beautiful. La potenza del bene si è rifugiata nella natura del bello. Go back to album – Greek and Roman
Henri Le Sidaner, The gazebo, Gerberoy, 1929 I stepped ashore one May nightin the cool moonshinewhere grass and flowers were greybut the scent green.I glided up the slopein the colour-blind nightwhile white stonessignalled to the moon.A period of timea few minutes longfifty-eight years wide. Sbarcai una notte di maggioin un gelido chiaro di lunadove erba …
Tomas Tranströmer – Pagina di libro notturno / A page of the night-book Read More »
Hans Andersen Brendekilde, Springtime, the first anemones, 1889 How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold?Because the lovely little flower is freedown to its root, and, in that freedom, bold;and so the grandeur of the Forest-treecomes not by casting in a formal mould,but from its own divine vitality. Come il fiore del prato si spiega in …
Gustave Moreau, The travelling poet, c. 1888 I didn’t know what a poet was when I was leading chariots to war and the horse Xanto was speaking to me. But the young age of Hector and Achilles passed as a comet. I have become nothing but a man: now my soul is seeking itself in …
Ferdinand Hodler, Spring, 1901 “Sorvoleremo insieme il firmamento dove le stelle brilleranno a cento” e poi precipiteremo dagli alti strabiliamenti in annuvolamenti sbilenchi a trascinarci a sfilacciarci in mille dissipazioni? O finiremo, consustanziale sangue, disseccati in mappe in indizi per i meteosat persi sull’orlo di ignizioni? O saremo, soltanto, insieme a mugghiarci addosso stipati nel …
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