Antonio Mancini, Resting, 1887 I myself have punished life by living it.Till where my heart could bearI boldly ventured.Now my day is no elsethan a sterile repetitionof ill habitsand I wish I could set free from the black circle.Once I make it to dawn,a fancy takes hold of me, a cravingof not to sleep.And I …
Adrian Ludwig Richter, Crossing the Elbe at Aussig, 1837 The time is mute along motionless reeds… Far-off from landings wandered a canoe… Exhausted and inert the oarsman… Skies already fallen into gulfs of smoke… Outstretched in vain on the rim of memories, to fall perhaps was mercy… He knew not it is the same illusion …
Giuseppe Ungaretti – Il Tempo è Muto / The Time is Mute Read More »
Marc Chagall, Time is a river without banks, 1939 E per la luce giusta, cadendo solo un’ ombra viola sopra il giogo meno alto, la lontananza aperta alla misura, ogni mio palpito, come usa il cuore, ma ora l’ascolto, t’affretta, tempo, a pormi sulle labbra le tue labbra ultime. Do you know this poem in …
Vladimir Kush, Sunrise by the Ocean, 2000 When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingand rested, which rest it certainly deserved,night now accompanied day, and manhad his friend in the absence of the woman.Let there be shadow! Human thinking broke out.And the universal egg rose, empty,pale, chill and not yet heavy with matter,full of …
Antonio Machado – Al grande zero / To the Great Circle of Nothing Read More »
Andrea Mantegna, ,The Triumphs of Caesar, c. 1492 Giove ha Cesare in cura. Ei dal delitto Svolge il diritto, e dal misfatto il fato. Se un erario al bisogno è scassinato O un cittadino per error trafitto, Tutto si sanerà con un editto. A sua gloria e per forza ei ci ha salvato. Chi ebbe …
Jules Breton, Last flowers, 1890 I do not regret, and I do not shed tears, all, like haze off apple-trees, must pass. Turning gold, I’m fading, it appears, I will not be young again, alas. Having got to know the touch of coolness I will not feel, as before, so good. And the land of …
Sergei A. Yesenin – Non ho rimpianti / I do not regret Read More »
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