The White Sail
A ship sails on the open seawith its sails spread to the wind
Οδυσσέας Ελύτης, Ποιήματα, Εκδόσεις
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The Journey and the Shores
I will forever remain the ideal and unworthy loverof distant voyages and blue oceans.
Nikos
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The Sun the Sovereign
The sun, the sovereign sun,playing games with the stones...
Odysseas Elytis, The Sovereign Sun, translated by
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The Seagull and the Wave
And the white waveopening its wings to the wind.
Odysseas Elytis, Collected Poems, translated by
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The Journey
Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey.Without her you would not have set out
C.P. Cavafy, Ithaca
Το ταξίδι
Η Ιθάκη
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The Sea
The sea is my only homeland.I have nothing else in the world.
Albert Camus, Notebooks
Η θάλασσα
Η θάλασσα είναι
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Sea Salt
And my soul found its harborthere where stone meets the wave
Odysseas Elytis, Collected Poems, translated by Edmund
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The City
You said: 'I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,Another city shall be found, better than
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The Silence of the World
The birds are still singingwithin the silence of the world.
Yannis Ritsos, Selected Poems
Η σιωπή
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The Mirror of Art
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of
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The Paradise of Books
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges, Seven
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The Windmills
Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those fellows there, who are not giants, but windmills..
Miguel
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In Hermoupoli
A gunshot at the edge of lifea final letter beginning: In Hermoupoli
Manos Eleftheriou, In Hermoupoli
Εν Ερμουπόλει
Μια πιστολιά
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Like Karagiozis
What eats at me, what saves meis that I dream like Karagiozis.Friends and enemies on my terrible
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Sky and Stone
These trees do not settle for less sky,these stones do not settle beneath the stranger's eye..."
Yannis
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Moonlight Sonata
Let me come with you. This moon is strange...
Yannis Ritsos, Moonlight Sonata, translated by Kostas Myrsiades, Pella
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The Small and Great World
This world, the small, the great!
Odysseas Elytis, The Axion Esti (Gloria), translated by Edmund
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The Guide
Inside my mind and in my heartshames of centuries have flared upand arm my palmwith flaming lightnings
Kostas
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The Lessons of the Sea
The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.
Ernest
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The Foundations of the World
With an olive tree, a plough, a ship
he re-creates the world.
Odysseas Elytis, The
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Encounters in the Light
Thousands of years nowthe sun the sovereign sunearly in the morning sets outto meet the
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The Silence of Loneliness
I know that everyone walks alone in love, alone in glory and in death. I
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A Magical Day, an Indescribable Day
A magical day, an indescribable day!
When the first drop played on the
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Morning Flight by the Sea
Paradise is not a geographical concept. It is the state where your senses are
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Silent Lights in the Dark
"With the lamp of a star I proceed..."
Odysseas Elytis, Orientations (1940, translated)
Σιωπηλά φώτα στο
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The Memory of the Narrow Street
You will find no new lands, you will find no other seas
. The
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At Anchor at Dusk
It's growing dark.
A ship at anchor,
foreign, bearing a flag of anguish...
Nikos Kavvadias, Traverso, Athens: Agra
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New Wounds Like Water Lilies
I went out for new wounds to float above the old ones like water
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Innocent and Eternal
Children play on the shore and the sea gives them the measure of the world, innocent
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The Cat in the Dark
If these are true I sing
The wooden beam and the woven square
Upon the wall,
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