..is that you often find stuff you believed to be lost forever, somewhere in the folds of chaos.

This is what happened to me today, when a CD fell into my hands.. a recording of a "Lectura Dantis" by Carmelo BeneThis quite peculiar italian actor, writer and general genius, who has died a few years ago, IMHO has read Dante better than any other ( Read more... )

..it is time for some more Romanian poetry that talks directly to my heart..
( Nichita Stanescu, Cântec de iarnă )

to distract from depressed and anxious feelings.
( yes, more Romanian poems, yes, I know I am kind of monothematic these days )

It has arrived. OMG.

( the book I have been waiting for ... with all my fangirlish crazy soul...for more than a month! )

From a friend , I got this wonderful link.. with a precious lore of literature and poetry..
I can't wait until I will be truly able to read, understand and appreciate it all!

.. I happened on this italian translation for yet another fascinating Eminescu poem and am posting it here so I can look at it whenever I want and slowly work my way through the original with the help of the translation (Here you can find also a beautiful English translation..!)
Luceafăr in Romanian is the name of the morning star (the planet Venus ( Read more... )

As of late afternoon I am the proud owner - for the first time in my life - of a mp3 player ( Read more... )

..and so I ordered THIS BOOK

*squeeee*

..here a more contemporary poet.. Nichita Stănescu.

There are no words at all to describe just how the last verse resounds inside me.
Emoţie de toamnă

A venit toamna, acopera-mi inima cu ceva,
cu umbra unui copac sau mai bine cu umbra ta.

mă tem că n-am să te mai văd, uneori,
că or să-mi crească ( Read more... )

..how can it not melt for somebody who looks like this..

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