Tomorrow, at dawn | A poem by Victor Hugo, 1847
Auguste de Châtillon, Portrait of Léopoldine Hugo,1836 "At dawn tomorrow, when the plains grow bright,I'll go. You wait for me:...
Death
On [:] Shame | Erich Maria Remarque, 1936
Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Sea Urchins, 1791 “It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.” Erich Maria Remarque,...
On [:] Among | Ghassan Kanafani, 1962
Berber rug, Tunisia “Gazelles like to die among their people.Falcons don't care where they die.” Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the...
Black Stone Lying On A White Stone | A poem by César Vallejo, 1892-1938
César Vallejo, 1892-1938 I will die in Paris, on a rainy day,on some day I can already remember.I will...
One evening | Samuel Beckett, 1929-89
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Julius Caesar on Gold), 1981 . He was found lying on the ground. No one had...
Break, Break, Break | A poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1835
Roy Lichtenstein, Sea Shore, 1964 . Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that...
The Unknown Woman of the Seine | “The Most Kissed Face” in History | Rainer Maria Rilke / Ernst Benkard / Vladimir Nabokov
Evening drawing school, Boston, 1892 . L'Inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seine) was an unidentified young...
For Mac | A poem by Jack Spicer, 1925-1965
Max Dupain, Starfish in Rockpool, Toowoon Bay, 1986 . A dead starfish on a beach He has five branches Representing...
To Make Life | Vladimir Mayakovsky to Sergei Esenin, 1926
Sergei Yesenin in 1922 Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (1895 -1925) was a Russian lyric poet. On 28 of December in 1925...
On the motion and immobility of Douve | Yves Bonnefoy (1953)
Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve, Yves Bonnefoy, 1953 . I saw you running on the terraces,...