LOVE: Poetry, by Guy de Maupassant
LOVE Love is a brief word, but embraces all the others, because it includes the body, the soul, life and the whole being. We perceive it as well as feel the warm blood, we find out how the air, we carry in ourselves as our thoughts. For us there is nothing more important. (Guy de …
Read More »THE BOYS, THAT THEY LOVE: Poetry, by Jaques Prevert
THE BOYS THAT THEY LOVE The boys who they love kissing each other standing against the gates of the night, and passers passing mark them to finger. But the boys who are in love, there are none, and it is their only shadow that trembles in the night, stimulating the anger of passers. Their anger, their contempt, …
Read More »AS IN A DREAM: Poetry, by Rabindranath Tagore
AS IN A DREAM As in a dream, love comes with silent steps. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Read More »MY SOUL: Poetry, by Nazim Hikmet
MY SOUL My soul, close your eyes slowly, and as you immerse yourself in the water sinks into sleep, naked and dressed in white, the most beautiful of dreams will welcome you. My soul, close your eyes slowly abandoned as over my arms, in your sleep will not forget. Close your eyes slowly, your brown eyes, …
Read More »ANTOON VAN DYCK (1599/1641), FLEMISH PAINTER: The elegance of the portraits, watching Rubens and Titian
I LOVE INSIDE OF YOU: Poetry, by Nazim Hikmet
I LOVE INSIDE OF YOU I love you in the adventure of the ship that goes toward the pole, I love you in the boldness of the great discoveries of the players, I love you in the distant things, I love you in the impossible. Within in your eyes like in a forest full of sun, sweaty and …
Read More »JAN DE BEER (1475/1528), FLEMISH RENAISSANCE PAINTER: Figures with delicate folds ornamental landscapes and architecture
IF YOU DO NOT SPEAK: Poem by Rabindranath Tagore
IF YOU DO NOT SPEAK If you do not speak, I will fill my heart of your silent, and I will bear it. I’ll stay here stop to wait, as the starry night in his wake, with his head bowed down, patient. But the morning comes, the shades of night will vanish, and your voice in golden streams …
Read More »MOMENTS: Poetry by Jorge Luis Borges
If I could live my life again, in the next I would try to make more mistakes, not try to be so perfect, I would deny it more, I would be less serious than I was, in fact, I would take very few things seriously. I would be less hygienic, I would run more risks, take more vacations, contemplate more …
Read More »TIMELESS BOOKS, THE DEAR CREATURE: A novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Imagine a man. Imagine that in addition to the man – lying on a table – there is the limp body of a woman (his wife commits suicide, falling down from a window). Obviously, since it just happened, that man could not make sense of the incident. But is talking to himself, he finds explanations. Dostoevsky, the author of this …
Read More »TIMELESS BOOKS: The Courtesan by Pietro Aretino
………………………………… (Maestro Andrea) Ben is found Your Lordship. (Messer Maco) Good evening and Happy New Year. I believed to have lost you as and my familiar. (Maestro Andrea) The is better to miss that smarirme. Or here and book; go inside I will read you a little lesson sweet dessert for the first time. (Messer Maco) Ah, master, let me …
Read More »TIMELESS BOOKS: MADAME BOVARY, BY GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
They did not have anything else to say? Their eyes, however, were full of words the most serious. While they struggled to find trivial phrases, they felt filled both by the same languor. It was like a whisper of the soul, deep, continuous, who had won the item. Amazed by this new, soft feeling, not thinking even to explain their …
Read More »CIMA DA CONEGLIANO (1459/1517), ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTER: Shades of colors with the serious calm of its spirit
IT IS NOW EVENING: Poetry, by Salvatore Quasimodo
This poetry belongs to Water and Land (poetry collection published in 1930), with a structure very short and very deep ways. A poem which remained famous for its concise structure, exciting like a flash in the darkness that comes close: Everyone is just the heart of the earth pierced by a ray of sun: and it is now evening. …
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