Vincent van Gogh,Almond Blossom, 1890 I’d like to speak of this memory, but it’s so faded now -as though nothing’s left- because it was so long ago, in my adolescent years. A skin as though of jasmine… that August evening -was it August?- I can still just recall the eyes: blue, I think they were… …
Paul Baudry, The pearl and the wave, 1862 Crushed by the overwhelming cloud depth of basalt and lavas by even the enslaved echoes of a trumpet without power what sepulchral shipwreck (you know it, slobbering there, foam) among hulks the supreme one flattened the naked mast too or that which, furious mistake of some noble …
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John William Godward, Nude on the beach, 1922 The sun, on the sand, O sleeping wrestler, warms a languid bath in the gold of your hair, melting the incense on your hostile features, mixing an amorous liquid with the tears. The immutable calm of this white burning, o my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly, …
Gustave Moreau, The sirens, 1876 What voice comes with the sound of the waves That is not the voice of the sea? It’s the voice of someone who speaks to us, But that, if we listen, hushes, For listening has occurred. And only if, half asleep, Without knowing we hear, we hear, She tells us …
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Max Ernst, Oedipus Rex, 1922 My way is in the sand flowing between the shingle and the dune the summer rain rains on my life on me my life harrying fleeing to its beginning to tis end my peace is there in the receding mist when I may cease from threading these long shifting thresholds …
Paul Gauguin, La Orana Maria, 1891 Brown and agile child, the sun which forms the fruit And ripens the grain and twists the seaweed Has made your happy body and your luminous eyes And given your mouth the smile of water. A black and anguished sun is entangled in the twigs Of your black mane …
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