The Last Post of the Year

...
The earth, for us, is flat and bare.
There are no shadows. Poetry

Exceeding music must take the place
Of empty heaven an its hymns...

(Wallace Stevens)

I would like to thank all visitors of my blog. All the best in a New Year!

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"The return"

See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!
(...)

Inspired by Ezra Pound

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Firenze's streets (17)

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"To venerate the simple days"

Inspired by Emily Dickinson

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"A door just opened on a street"

Inspired by Emily Dickinson

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"Transport to Summer"

Inspired by Wallace Stevens

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Caffe

Ah, quanto tempo
siè
potuto
vivere,
terra,
senza autunno!
(...)
(Ode all'autunno - Pablo Neruda)

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Niente di Grave

Inspired by Eugenio Montale

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Firenze's streets (14)

(...)
Essere pronti non vuol dire scegliere
tra due sventure o due venture oppure
tra il tutto e il nulla.
(...)
(Eugenio Montale)

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Pari passu

(...)
Un hombre se confunde, gradualmente, con la forma de su destino; un hombre es, a la larga, sus circunstancias (...)

Jorge Luis Borges

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Firenze's streets (13)

¿Por qué persistes, incesante espejo?
¿Por qué duplicas,
misterioso hermano,
el movimiento de mi mano?
¿Por qué en la sombra el súbito reflejo?
...
(Al Espejo - Jorge Luis Borges)

A post dedicated to Laura Rivera

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Graphism (12)

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Waiting for...

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Home III

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Firenze's streets (12)

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Firenze's streets (11)

...
Tentammo un giorno di trovare un modus
moriendi che non fosse il suicidio
né la sopravvivenza. Altri ne prese
per noi l'iniziativa; e ora è tardi
per rituffarci dallo scoglio.
...
(Eugenio Montale)


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Como in Black & White (4)

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Duomo (Firenze) - 3

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Mailbox

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Urban Stories (1)

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Dead Nature?

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Camouflage (2)

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Painting (4)

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Autumn in Como

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Graffiti(2)

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Graphism (11)

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Graphism (10)

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