"Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale..."
- Eugenio Montale / #letture
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"Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale..." - Eugenio Montale / #letture
- Stagger onward rejoicing;
And even then if, perhaps
Having actually got
To the last col, you collapse
With all Atlantis shining
Below you yet you cannot
Descend, you should still be proud
Even to have been allowed
Just to peep at Atlantis
In a poetic vision:
Give thanks and lie down in peace,
Having seen your salvation.from Atlantis by W H Auden - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
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Even so, step by step the daylight decreases, and the cicerone's droning voice grows hollower as the traveler descends into the Catacombs. The comparison holds good! Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts?
from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- But now it has happened,
No use in talking
The silence between me and you
Has never had meaning.
It was, love it, that was all
That was asked.
But now it has happened,
No words for the foretime,
The desperation has made me the same,
Has made me another.
Who looks at the shape of the fish
Grow giant on the side of his bowl,
Who walks on the terrace
Observing fol... See morefrom CHET ON POETRY (Chet Baker) by Unknown
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Alas, this black sorrowful sea below me! Alas, this pregnant nocturnal dismay! Alas, destiny and sea! To you I must now go down! Before my highest mountain I stand and before my longest wandering; to that end I must first go down deeper than ever I descended—deeper into pain than ever I descended, down into its blackest flood. Thus my destiny wants
... See morefrom The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library) by Friedrich Nietzsche
