08/06/2019
A dança da água
14/04/2013
Diálogos da escrita
Diálogos da escrita
(...) Há em olhos humanos, ainda que litográficos, uma coisa terrível: o aviso inevitável da consciência, o grito clandestino de haver alma.
[Após a leitura do livro mencionado perceberão o conjunto de ideias].
Porque há acasos ou coincidências hoje revi o filme:
O Homem da Máscara de Ferro
30/12/2011
O espelho, a beleza... Balanços!
- Hoje, durante o meu passeio matinal, vi uma linda mulher... Meu Deus, que linda que ela era! (...)
- Sério, sr. Spinell? Descreva-ma então.
- Não, não posso! Dar-lhe-ia uma imagem imperfeita dela. Ao passar, mal a vi; na verdade, não a vi. Apercebi-me, porém, da sua sombra esfumada, e isso bastou para me excitar a imaginação e guardar dela uma imagem de beleza. Meu Deus, que linda imagem!
A mulher do sr. Klöterjahn sorriu.
- É essa a sua maneira de olhar para as mulheres bonitas, senhor Spinell?
- Sim, minha senhora, é; é muito melhor do que olhá-las fixamente na cara, com uma grosseira avidez da realidade, para no fim ficarmos com uma impressão falsa...
Thomas Mann, in "Tristão" (retirado do citador)
17/11/2010
...um retrato, uma alma!
«Um retrato pintado com a alma é um retrato, não do modelo mas do artista»
Oscar Wilde (citador)
15/10/2010
Vinheta 18 - Oscar Wilde!

"One winter morning he looked out of his window as he was dressing. He did not hate the Winter now, for he knew that it was merely the Spring asleep, and that the flowers were resting.
Suddenly he rubbed his eyes in wonder, and looked and looked. It certainly was a marvellous sight. In the farthest corner of the garden was a tree quite covered with lovely white blossoms. Its branches were all golden, and silver fruit hung down from them, and underneath it stood the little boy he had loved.
Downstairs ran the Giant in great joy, and out into the garden. He hastened across the grass, and came near to the child. And when he came quite close his face grew red with anger, and he said, 'Who hath dared to wound thee?' For on the palms of the child's hands were the prints of two nails, and the prints of two nails were on the little feet.
'Who hath dared to wound thee?' cried the Giant; 'tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.'
'Nay!' answered the child; 'but these are the wounds of Love.'
'Who art thou?' said the Giant, and a strange awe fell on him, and he knelt before the little child.
And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, today you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.'
And when the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant lying dead under the tree, all covered with white blossoms."
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11/06/2010
Porque é que a Primavera não vem!

'I cannot understand why the Spring is so late in coming,' said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold white garden; 'I hope there will be a change in the weather.'
But the Spring never came, nor the Summer".
20/05/2010
LA BELLA DONNA DELLA MIA MENTE!
Têmpera sobre tela, 172,5 × 278,5 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi (Florença)
LA BELLA DONNA DELLA MIA MENTE (Lovely Lady of My Memory)
Y limbs are wasted with a flame,
My feet are sore with travelling,
For, calling on my Lady's name,
My lips have now forgot to sing.
O Linnet in the wild-rose brake
Strain for my Love thy melody,
O Lark sing louder for love's sake,
My gentle Lady passeth by.
She is too fair for any man
To see or hold his heart's delight,
Fairer than Queen or courtesan
Or moonlit water in the night.
Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves,
(Green leaves upon her golden hair!)
Green grasses through the yellow sheaves
Of autumn corn are not more fair.
Her little lips, more made to kiss
Than to cry bitterly for pain,
Are tremulous as brook-water is,
Or roses after evening rain.
Her neck is like white melilote
Flushing for pleasure of the sun,
The throbbing of the linnet's throat
Is not so sweet to look upon.
As a pomegranate, cut in twain,
White-seeded, is her crimson mouth,
Her cheeks are as the fading stain
Where the peach reddens to the south.
O twining hands! O delicate
White body made for love and pain!
O House of love! O desolate
Pale flower beaten by the rain!
Oscar Wilde "La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente" was originally published in Kottabos, 1876. It was revised for Poems, 1881.

