Overtures to Death, 5 | Cecil Day-Lewis, 1938
William Rothenstein (1872 - 1945), Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis . The sun came out in April The hawthorn in...
Poems
I Want to Write About You | A poem by Halina Poświatowska, 1935-1967
Halina Poświatowska, 1957 . I want to write about you With your name to prop the crooked fence The...
The Black Man | A poem by Sergei Yesenin, 1925
Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925) . My friend, my friend, How sick I am. Nor do I know Whence came this sickness....
The Wind | A poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1913
Ethel Spowers, Kites, 1936 . I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky;...
Dance like a flame | A poem by William Butler Yeats, 1894
Imre Benkő, Ballerina, 1977 . “Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you...
Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men | Charles Bukowski, 1957
David Wojnarowicz, Self Portrait. 1983-85 . Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow...
Mobius Strip | Robert Desnos, 1900-1945
M. C. Escher, Relativity, 1953 . The track I'm running on Won't be the same when I turn...
Silence | A poem by Langston Hughes, 1941
Casper Sejersen for Dazed & Confused . I catch the pattern Of your silence Before you speak I do not...
Ash tree | Octavio Paz, 1914-1998
Rudolf Koppitz, Ash tree, 1912 * Last night an ash tree was about to tell me something—it didn’t. Octavio Paz, ...
Invocation | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822
unknown . Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night?...