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. …
Read More »SANDRO BOTTICELLI (1445/1510), ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTER: The linear grace of Early Renaissance painting
ON A DRY WASH: The last haiku, by Matsuo Bashō
Basho in the summer of 1694 he went to Osaka. He died there, after writing his latest haiku: Traveling, sick the way of my dreams on a dry wash. http://www.amazon.com/Matsuo-Basho-Makoto-Ueda/dp/0870115537 http://www.amazon.it/111-HAIKU-BASHO-MATSUO/dp/8877992506
Read More »TIMELESS BOOKS: ITALIAN JOURNEY BY GOETHE
……………………………………………..Castrogiovanni, Sunday, April 29, 1787. The old Enna he reserved the harshest of welcome: a room with brick, with taxes but no windows, so we had to choose between staying seated us in the dark or expose ourselves again to the squalls we had just escaped. Devoured some remains of our provisions and, after having a bad night, solemnly we …
Read More »JOHANNES VERMEER (1632/1675), XVIIth-CENTURY DUTCH PAINTER: Few paintings, melted in lapis lazuli and Indian yellow
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864/1901), XIXth-CENTURY FRENCH PAINTER: Substance and colorful details, in the lifestyles bohemian Paris
THE CARE – By Franco Battiato
THE CARE I’ll protect you from the fears of hypochondria from disturbances that will meet today for your street. Injustices and deceptions of your time, from the failures that your nature will attract. Will relieve you from pain and your mood swings, the obsessions of your delusions. Overcome the gravitational currents, space and light to not grow old. And heal …
Read More »I WISH I COULD A QUIET CORNER: Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore
I WISH I COULD A QUIET CORNER I wish I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my baby’s very own world. I know it has stars that talk to him, and a sky that stoops down to his face to amuse him with its silly clouds and rainbows. Those who make believe to be dumb, and look …
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