The Mystery of Light
"The light that burns is the one that keeps silent.All secrets are hidden in the
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A Parent’s Greatest Treasure
“To raise your child,to teach them to walk upon the earth,not to fear the darkness,to
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The Roots of Love
“And love takes root deep, like the tree that resists the wind;what has endured the
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The Language of Glances
“We did not speak about things; we spoke with things.Sometimes we kept silent and our
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Symmetry and absolute peace
“Wherever I travel Greece wounds me.For the pines in the wind and the waves of
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From above the clouds look smaller
"I remember few things.Houses, words, courtyards—all shrink when you look at them from
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Sending signals of desperation
"And I shouted into the night with all my strength,but no one heard me on
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There in the wilderness I will build my home
"And even if I find myself in the most barren
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The Lightness of Youth
"What is a god? What is not a god?And what is there in between?The sea!And
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"With the sun at your feet,I walk into the light,where shadows dissolveand love becomes endless."
Odysseas Elytis, “The Monogram”
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I will build my house in the sea
"I built my house by the sea,not to forget but to
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And the past... closed!
"The house near the sea shut itself up with the seashells,with the algae, with the
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Sea, wind and carefreeness
"Sea with the green breast full of waves,and children running on the sand,the wind in
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I will sing of your strength,I will remember your eyes,and no matter how heavily they beat us down,my
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Growth of the Soil
“The earth yields all it can; dig and sow, wait and it will always give
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Playing hide and seek with the trees
"Nothing is ever lost,in the sun everything is revealed.And the most hidden
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The Blood Moon
“Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind.
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Diving to reach you
To me the sea is a continual miracle,The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the
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Water wall
“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.I am the flower and the
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Liberation is a matter of decision alone
“The ship that departs is held by ropes,yet the ropes break within
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“We look before and after,And pine for what is not:Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs
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"The Love that moves the sun and the other stars."
Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia – Paradiso, Canto XXXIII (1320)
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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where
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“All grown-ups were once small, and children know how to look beyond the horizons that adults forget.”
Antoine de
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I will find a way to survive
“Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the
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A Prayer for Better Days
“With the lamps of night,we light small fires of hope,fragile flames defyingthe weight of
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“Without community, there is no liberation.”
Audre Lorde – “Sister Outsider” (1984)
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"Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They come through
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My seagull, wandering far,you battle against the wild waves;and your cry, bitter and salt,becomes both lament and hope
Kostis
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I started Early – Took my Dog –And visited the Sea –The Mermaids in the BasementCame out to
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