Victor Hugo | I wish you / Je te souhaite

I wish you first to love,

and that loving, also be loved.

And, if not, be brief in forgetting

and that after forgetting, don't hold grudges.

I wish, therefore, that it is not so, but that if it is,

You know how to be without despair.

Vladimir Kush | Symphony of the Sun

Ghiannis Ritsos | Moonlight sonata / Sonata al chiaro di luna, 1956

Jeremy Mann

A spring evening.

A large room in an old house. A woman of a certain age, dressed in black, is speaking to a young man. They have not turned on the lights.

Through both windows the moonlight shines relentlessly.

I forgot to mention that the Woman in Black has published two or three interesting volume of poetry with a religious flavor.

So, the Woman in Black is speaking to the Young Man:

Bernard Buffet | Expressionist painter

Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) was a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group L'homme Témoin (the Witness-Man).

Bernard Buffet represents a typical demonstration of the divorce between the French and Contemporary Art.

Popular artist by excellence, Bernard Buffet loved by the public is however detested by elitists whom hold against him his prolixity: 8,000 paintings, water colors,drawings, lithographs and engravings.

Picasso and the still life

For Picasso, life in all its forms - its tragedies, joys, and banalities; his great loves and his children; the people, places and events that shaped him - fed his insatiable need to create.

Consequently, every one of his works is deeply autobiographical - a reflection of a time, emotion or state of mind.

Just as a portrait by the artist is never just a straightforward depiction of a sitter, so a still life is never solely a meaningless assortment of objects.

Eraclito: "Il carattere di un uomo è il suo destino"

• "L'armonia invisibile è una sfera perfetta e incontaminata. Quella visibile, invece, si deforma continuamente sotto il peso della realtà…"

• "L'apprendere molte cose non insegna l'intelligenza.."

Raphael | The School of Athens, 1509-1511 | Heraclitus, detail | Stanze di Raffaello, Vatican

Anthony De Mello | L'Aquila che si crede un Pollo / The Eagle who thought he was a Chicken

Un uomo trovò un uovo d'aquila e lo mise nel nido di una chioccia.

L'uovo si schiuse contemporaneamente a quelli della covata e l'aquilotto crebbe insieme ai pulcini.

Per tutta la vita l'aquilotto fece quel che facevano i polli nel cortile, pensando di essere uno di loro.

Frugava il terreno in cerca di vermi ed insetti, chiocciava e schiamazzava, scuoteva le ali alzandosi da terra di qualche decimetro.

Lizzy Ansingh | The Amsterdamse Joffers group

Maria Elisabeth Georgina Ansingh (13 March 1875 - 14 December 1959) was a Dutch painter.

Ansingh belonged to a group of female post-impressionist painters influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement called the Amsterdamse Joffers.

She was also a member of the (still existing) Amsterdam art circles Arti et Amicitiae and Sint Lucas.

She died in Amsterdam on 14 December 1959.

Sibilla Aleramo | Tentazione

Hai avuto un gesto delle mani, dolce,

mentre parlavi dell’amore femineo,

hai figurato col cavo delle mani dolcemente

la raccolta e tremula dedizione d’un cuore.

Maria Amaral