The Light of the Bulbs
And yet a drop of light in the harbor, as dusk falls, is enough
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The Toil of the Sea
"And the fisherman drawing in his nets, full of the marks of the brine
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The Child and the Horizon
And a child playing with the water, looking at the world growing before them.
George
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The Summer Swing
A tamarisk tree, a swing tied to a rope and the sea before you; a man
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The Voices of the Sea
Within the sea there is a silence that travels along with the great fish
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The Chapel on the Rock
A small chapel with its whitewash, at the hour when the sun sets, is
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The Art of Living
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want,at least try as much
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The Origin of Stone
This landscape is as harsh as silence, it hugs to its breast its scorched stones.
Yannis
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The Journey of Memory
The price of silence is heavy, when the sea speaks within you
George Seferis, Mythistorema (1935),
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The Momentum of Light
Only the wave knows the momentum of the sun.
Odysseas Elytis, Orientations (1940), translated by Olga
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The World's Embrace
Where can I hide you, my little son, so the evil ones won't reach you? On
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The Harbor of the Embrace
If you hadn't given me your love, mother, I wouldn't have known that the
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The Silence of the Sea
And the sea, an infinite silence, waiting for you to name it.
George Seferis, Logbook
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The Girl on the Bicycle of Hope
And the child who drew a sun upon the wall, and then
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The Flight into Infinity
Always, always you pass through the fire to reach the radiance
Odysseas Elytis, Orientations (1940)
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The Golden Sunset
The sun the sun-king, the rock-player
from the edge of edges, descends towards the shores.
Odysseas Elytis, from
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Endless Horizon
I shall remain forever the ideal and unworthy lover
of distant voyages and of the azure seas.
Nikos
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Voices of the Shadows
Ideal and beloved voices of those who are dead, or of those who are lost
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The Companionship of Time
We know that the world is beautiful, because we love each other.
Yannis Ritsos, Morning Star
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The Spring of Promise
And the poppies, fires lit by spring, to show us the way to the light.
Yannis
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The Freedom of the Wind
The momentum the wind gives you, no logic can restrain.Odysseas Elytis, from the work
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The Dance of Life
Because we do not sing to distinguish ourselves from the world, my brother. We sing
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The Voyage of Memory
The sea is always our homeland, and our ships are the roads that never close.
Nikos
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The Child and the Aegean
I knew that all happiness on earth is this: to reflect, to look at
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The Architecture of the Aegean
Before my eyes there was the light, after the light there was the Aegean,
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The Sacred Compact of Friendship
Nothing in this world is more sacred than a friendship that withstands time and
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Threshold to the Infinite Blue
We saw the earth become beautiful again like the light.
Odysseus Elytis, To Axion Esti
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The music of the rain
And the rain kept falling, rhythmically, upon the roofs of the old houses,
as if
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A wish on the street
To grant you a wish, as you pass by the alley, written upon the
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The geometry of absence
So much white that you cannot distinguish it from silence. A chair, a wall, a
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