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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage – Lord Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have … Continue reading
Alphaville – Capital of pain, Paul Eluard poems
Anna Karina, the Danish-born actress who became a symbol of the French New Wave in Jean Luc Godard’s 1960s films, died on Saturday in Paris. She was 79. In Jean-Luc Godard’s futuristic detective movie Alphaville (1965) there is a famous scene in which Natacha (Anna Karina) recites some lines of poetry. She is holding a copy of … Continue reading
Reading Cy Twombly : Poetry in Paint
These images, selected from Mary Jacoubs book Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint, indicate the range and provocation of Cy Twombly’s works on canvas and paper, pointing especially to his inventive use of literary quotation and allusion throughout his long career and his relation to poetry as an inspiration for his art. GEORGE SEFERIS, “THREE … Continue reading
The Absence by Paul Eluard / Gabriele Münter
I speak to you across cities I speak to you across plains My mouth is upon your pillow Both faces of the walls come meeting My voice discovering you I speak to you of eternity O cities memories of cities Cities wrapped in our desires Cities come early cities come lately Cities strong and cities … Continue reading
Pleasures – Bertolt Brecht / Alice Neel
First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly Vergnügungen Der erste Blick aus dem Fenster am Morgen Das wiedergefundene Buch Begeisterte Gesichter Schnee, der Wechsel der Jahreszeiten … Continue reading
Letter to a Man: Nijinsky by Mikhail Baryshnikov
In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, at that time the most celebrated male dancer in the Western world, moved into a villa in St. Moritz with his wife, Romola, and their three-year-old daughter. His relations with Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the company in which he had made his name, were now severed, and with a war … Continue reading
The Flower and the Nausea: Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Judi Dench narrates the global warming poem at Rio’s opening ceremony. Dench provided the English translation of a poem about rain forests. She read ” A Flor e a Nausea” by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. The poem is about a flower being able to grow in a crack in the asphalt of a very polluted … Continue reading
The Ice Palace : F. Scott Fitzgerald / Javier Vallhonrat
“Clark,” she said softly, “I wouldn’t change you for the world. You’re sweet the way you are. The things that’ll make you fail I’ll love always– the living in the past, the lazy days and nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.” “But you’re goin’ away?” “Yes– because I couldn’t ever marry you. … Continue reading
La Passion suspendue : Marguerite Duras
Journaliste à «la Stampa», Leopoldina Pallota della Torre rencontre Marguerite Duras en 1987. Il a fallu parlementer longtemps, dit-elle, pour convaincre la romancière, occupée à écrire le scénario de «l’Amant», de la recevoir dans son appartement de la rue Saint-Benoît. La journaliste se souvient de l’avoir d’abord vue «de dos, petite, très petite, assise comme … Continue reading
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