Sunday, March 20, 2011

Whatever is moved must be moved by something else

















1. Vancouver Public Library, 6th F. Classics and Fine Art Dept. 
2. Kaos 1984, by Pablo e Vittorio Taviani 
3. Luigi Pirandello 1867-1936, Nobel Prize in Literature 
4. Mozart, Cavatina, L'ho perduta from Nozze di Figaro
5. Sicily, Italy

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Create something that time will not willingly let die — Milton's Formula










 





Padre Padrone 
A shepherd boy from the backwaters of Sardinia molds himself into a linguistic scholar.

Night of the Shooting Stars 

Set on the night of the Feast of St. Lawrence during the last days of World War II.

Kaos
 

Adapted five short stories by Luigi Pirandello to capture the beauty of Sicilian landscape.
— All by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Monday, March 14, 2011

In the primal sympathy


We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
William Wordsworth

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Poetry arrived












Poetry — Pablo Neruda 


And it was at that age... Poetry arrived 

in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where 

it came from, from winter or a river. 

I don't know how or when, 

no, they were not voices, they were not 

words, nor silence, 

but from a street I was summoned, 

from the branches of night, 

abruptly from the others, 

among violent fires or returning alone, 

there I was without a face 

and it touched me.