Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Calamus – 1855 – translated from English into Spanish and Italian by Enzo Martinelli ©️ Enzo Martinelli 2019 Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have … Continue reading Are You the New Person, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
from «35 Sonnets». 1918, in Poemas Ingleses. by Fernando Pessoa – translated into Italian by Enzo Martinelli As to a child, I talked my heart asleep With empty promise of the coming day, And it slept rather for my words made sleep Than from a thought of what their sense did say. For did it care for sense, would it not wake And question closer … Continue reading As to a child, I talked my heart asleep, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Calamus – 1855 – translated from English into Italian by Enzo Martinelli 🇺🇸 For Him I Sing FOR him I sing,I raise the present on the past,(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,To make himself by them the law unto himself. 🇮🇹 … Continue reading For Him I Sing, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
from «35 Sonnets». 1918, in Poemas Ingleses. by Fernando Pessoa – translated into Spanish 🇪🇸, Italian 🇮🇹 and French 🇫🇷 by Enzo Martinelli © by Enzo Martinelli, 2019 How many masks wear we, and undermasks,Upon our countenance of soul, and when,If for self-sport the soul itself unmasks,Knows it the last mask off and the face plain?The true mask feels no inside to the maskBut looks … Continue reading How many masks wear we, and undermasks, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹
That shadow my likeness – Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Calamus – 1855 – translated from English into Italian by Enzo Martinelli ©️ 2019 Enzo Martinelli That shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits,How often I question and doubt whether that is really me;But among … Continue reading That Shadow My Likeness, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
🇮🇹 Italo Calvino esprime il suo meglio in questo libro complesso e divertente che mette al centro della scena il lettore, o meglio, la lettura dei dieci incipit di romanzi abilmente interconnessi. Un gradevolissimo piacere per ogni lettore appassionato della lettura creativa e fantasiosa. 🇬🇧 Italo Calvino expresses his best in this complex and entertaining book, If on a Winter Night a Traveller. At … Continue reading Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore 📖🇮🇹🚉
