Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Dreams, 1896 You were on time not to come at the right time. Hai fatto in tempo a non venire all’ ora prevista. Do you know a different English translation? Please contact me, this is a personal translation Go back to album – W. Szymborska *End of the second notebook/Fine del secondo …
Wislawa Szymborska – Hai fatto in tempo / You were on time Read More »
Jacek Yerka, Spring Labyrinth, 2004 To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. Vedere il mondo in un granello di sabbia e il cielo in un fiore tenere l’infinito nel palmo della tua mano …
Philippe de Champaigne, Triple portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu, c. 1642 I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing. Vivo sempre nel presente. Non conosco il futuro. Non ho più …
Fernando Pessoa – I always live in the present (from The Book of Disquiet) Read More »
Guercino Atlas holding up the celestial globe, 1646 To lift a weight so heavy, would take your courage, Sisyphus!Although one’s heart is in the work, Art is long and Time is short.Far from famous sepulchers toward a lonely cemetery my heart, like muffled drums, goes beating funeral marches.Many a jewel lies buried in darkness and oblivion, far, far away from picks and …
Umberto Boccioni, The mother, 1906 I have more memories than if I’d lived a thousand years. Ho più ricordi che se fossi carico di mille anni. Go back to album – C. Baudelaire
Rembrandt van Rijn, Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto, 1634 I heard the old, old men say,“Everything alters,and one by one we drop away.”They had hands like claws, and their kneeswere twisted like the old thorn treesby the waters.I heard the old, old men say,“All that’s beautiful drifts awaylike the waters.” Ho …
William Butler Yeats – The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water Read More »
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