Poema para o dia:

Today

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,

so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw

open all the windows in the house

and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,

indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

a day when the cool brick paths

and the garden bursting with peonies

seemed so etched in sunlight

that you felt like taking

a hammer to the glass paperweight

on the living room end table,

releasing the inhabitants

from their snow-covered cottage

so they could walk out,

holding hands and squinting

into this larger dome of blue and white,

well, today is just that kind of day.

Billy Collins, in Nine Horses

Da beleza #7

Na origem da beleza está unicamente a ferida, singular, diferente para cada qual, escondida ou visível, que todos os homens guardam dentro de si, preservada, e onde se refugiam ao pretenderem trocar o mundo por uma solidão temporária mas profunda. Fora de miserabilismos. A arte de Giacometti parece querer revelar essa ferida secreta dos seres e das coisas, para que ela os ilumine. Jean Genet , in O Estúdio de Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti no seu estúdio em Paris (fonte aqui)