WHEN YOU WILL BE OLD: Poetry, by William Butler Yeats
WHEN YOU WILL BE OLD When you’re old, wavering between fire and waking take this book, read it unhurriedly and dreams of the sweetness of your eyes for a time, and their shadows. How many loved your sweet grace of that time, and the beauty of a true or false love. But one only loved your soul pilgrim, and the …
Read More »WHAT WOULD NOT THIS WORLD: Poetry, by Samuel Beckett
WHAT WOULD NOT THIS WORLD What would I do without ever this world, faceless or questions, where to be but for a moment in which each instant, spills into the void of oblivion have been without this wave where finally will collapse together body and shadow. What would I do without this ever silent abyss of whispers, panting furiously rescue …
Read More »6 EMOTIONS IN DUBLIN: A tomb and a boarding school, a museum, a city district and the National Museum, without losing the General Post Office
Of course, in Dublin you can go wherever you want, but I would recommend to you – even if only part of your itinerary – something you will not find in a guidebook. If you go in the St. Patrick Cathedral, you will experience a thrill of tenderness, looking at the grave of Jonathan Swift, one that is next to …
Read More »GIOVANNI BOLDINI (1842/1931), ITALIAN PAINTER: Elegant longues and Tuscan landscapes, willowy women and uninhibited
VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853/1890), DUTCH PAINTER: Self-portraits, but also the realism of still lifes and cypresses, fields of wheat fields and sunflowers.
HOW YOU SHOULD KISSING: Poetry, by Erich Fried
HOW YOU SHOULD KISSING When I kiss you, not just your mouth, not just your belly button, it’s not just that I kiss your lap. I also kiss your questions, and your desires, I kiss your thinking, your doubts, and your courage, your love for me, and your freedom from me, your foot that has come here, and that’s …
Read More »THE WOMAN LEFT HAND: Poetry, by Peter Handke
THE WOMAN LEFT HAND Her climbed with other from a metro station, ate with with other in a warm table, with other was waiting in a laundry, but once I saw her alone, in front of a wall newspaper. She was dating with other from a skyscraper of offices, she trod with other at a stand, she sat with other …
Read More »IF I MELT – Poetry, by Marja Virolainen
IF I MELT If I melt fusing in the rain, and the window see the nightjar, before sleeping when you take off the white shirt, open window: it’s me, scalded wings, flourish in your eyes, I support your neck burning, a soft laugh, whispers, I open my wings on your chest, I close them, I land in a breath, on …
Read More »GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL – CANALETTO (1697/1768), ITALIAN PAINTER: Shades of beautiful topography, architecture and nature, cataloging the preciousness of light
JOKES OF CLOUDS: Poetry, by Vladimir Majakoskij
JOKES OF CLOUDS Sailed clouds in the sky, four pieces of clouds; from first to third were people; the fourth was a camel. At these, curiously he joined the street a fifth; from it, in the lap of the blue sky an elephant pulled away behind another. And I do not know if he frightened the sixth, suddenly the clouds …
Read More »JUAN GRIS (1887/1927), PAINTER SPANISH: Comics and paintings, chatting with Matisse and Braque, Leger, Modigliani and Picasso
MEXICO, WEST COAST OF THE GULF: lagoons, marshes and sand
Welcome to the west coast of the Gulf of Mexico, between lagoons, swamps and sand, into a treasure trove of lush vegetation. Few hotels and many Mexicans, good sign for us, because we – as they do – enjoy exquisite seafood. In the southern part of this coast, he had developed the Olmec culture, so, if you love archeology, we …
Read More »ISLE OF PAXOS: Greece in peace, between tiny coves and olive trees
Green, green and leafy, this is the surprise that offers this Ionian island. Not by chance – according to mythology – the island was created by Poseidon for his beloved. Walking Gaios, a few steps from the port, there is the small beach surrounded by pretty houses, all with flower-filled balconies. Can we stop a little in one of the …
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