Renè Magritte, The great century, 1954 Have you seen him tonight? I’ve seen him. Did you see him last night? I saw him, I see him every night. Does he look at you? He doesn’t look sideways, he only looks over there, over there, where the sky begins and the earth ends, in the line …
Aldo Palazzeschi – Lo sconosciuto / The stranger Read More »
Georges Seurat, Peasant boy sitting in a meadow, 1883 How high pain is. Love is such a beast. Emptiness of the words that dig into emptiness empty monuments of emptiness. Emptiness of the grain that already attained (in the sun) the height of the heart. (Transl. by P. Verdicchio) Com’è alto il dolore. L’amore, com’è …
Giorgio Caproni – Senza esclamativi / Without exclamatives Read More »
Caspar David Friedrich, Sunset (Brothers), c.1835 Happy the man who’s come to port, who leaves behind him seas and storms, whose dreams are dead or never born; who sits and drinks by the fire at the beer hall in Bremen, and is at peace. Happy the man like a flame gone out, happy the man …
Philip Wilson Steer, Young woman on the beach, 1889 Don’t you say I’m losing the meaning and the time of my life, if in the sand I seek out the sun and the tears of the worlds, if I fling my greatest soul into things and I believe in staggering spells… (Transl. by D. Foglia) …
Evelyn De Morgan, Aurora triumphans, 1878 When in darkness you’ll brim with a crash in a waterfall of blood — I will cruise with a red sail across hideous silences till craters of promised light. (Transl. by Alessandra Bava) Quando dal mio buio traboccherai di schianto in una cascata di sangue — navigherò con una …
Claudio Filippini (b. 1953), After the rain It rained all night on summer’s memories. In the dark we left inside a mournful thundering of stones, standing on the banks we lifted torches to explore bridges, their danger. Pale at dawn we saw swallows on the lines soaked, still spying secret farewell nods – & ground-level …
Antonia Pozzi – Morte di una stagione / Death of a season Read More »
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