Summer in the Country | Robert Walser, 1914
Fairfield Porter, South Meadow, 1972 WHAT DO you do during a summer in the country? Good God man, what do...
1910s
Alphabetarion # Quiver | D.H. Lawrence, 1915
Mark Rothko, No. 8, 1952 “The light grew stronger, gushing up against the dark sap-hire of the transparent night. The...
Painters [*/ ) Flowers and Fruits | Kokei Kobayashi, 1883-1957
Kokei Kobayashi, Fruit, 1910 Kokei Kobayashi, Fruit, 1930s Kokei Kobayashi, Red Painting Kokei Kobayashi, Fruits and Flowers, 1938 Kokei Kobayashi,...
At Night | Franz Kafka, 1917-19
Agnes Martin, Kyrie, 1962 "Deeply lost in the night. Just as one sometimes lowers one's head to reflect, thus to...
Days [ ) Remembrance | Marcel Proust, 1913
Antonio Mora, Nobody Knows Me “Remembrance of things past is not necessarilythe remembrance of things as they were.” Marcel Proust,...
It’s Raining | A poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1916
Guillaume Apollinaire, Il Pleut, Calligrammes, 1916 its raining womens voices as if they were dead even in memoryits raining you...
Δροσιά τοῦ πόνου | Γεώργιος Δροσίνης, 1915
Pierre Mignard, Lady holding a dish of pearls, 17th ce (detail) Δροσιά τοῦ πόνου κρυφογέννητηΒγῆκε στὸ φῶς κ’ ἔγινε δάκρυΚ’...
Book//mark – Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays | G.K. Chesterton,1917
G.K. Chesterton / Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays, 1917 "In all popular narratives, the king, if he is a...
On [:] Accustom | Guillaume Apollinaire, 1913
Marcel Duchamp, Apolinère Enameled, 1916-17 “People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.” Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters,...
Prayer | A poem by Fernando Pessoa, 1913
Jack Tworkov, Idling, 1969 Our lady of Useless Tears,Thine is my heart's best shrine.I am sick with the gorging years,I...