In The Morning You Always Come Back | Cesare Pavese, 1951
Man Ray, Dawn of objects (Jacqueline Breton), 1937 . Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of...
Poems
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | A poem by William Butler Yeats, 1899
Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907 . Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver...
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! | Emily Dickinson, 1861
Emily Dickinson "Wild nights" manuscript . Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our...
The Syllable | A poem by Eugenio de Andrade, 1923-2005
Eugenio de Andrade, 1923-2005 . All morning I was searching for a syllable. It’s very little, that’s for sure: a...
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | William Carlos Williams, 1960
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus . According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was...
Silentium amoris | A poem by Oscar Wilde, 1881
Oscar Wilde. . As oftentimes the too resplendent sunHurries the pallid and reluctant moonBack to her sombre cave, ere she...
Adam’s Curse | A poem by William Butler Yeats, 1903
Ichiro Tsuruta, Japanese woman with wisteria hat . We sat together at one summer’s end, That beautiful mild woman, your...
One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted | Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886
Grandma Moses, Halloween, 1955 . One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house;...
The Lady Unknown | A poem by Alexander Blok, 1907
Kees van Dongen, Lady in a Black Hat, 1908 Of evenings hangs above the restaurantA humid, wild and heavy air.The...