“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause…. It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield in these days, how many young, promising lives. What does my death matter if by our acts thousands are...

  Fra Angelico, Triptych of Cortona (Cortona, 1430-36, det. of Mary Magdalene with Vase)   George Frederick Watts – St Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross (1866 – 1884) Portraits of Musician MAGDALENA GEKA   Magdalena Geka Violon Violinist Magdalena Geka (1992, Latvia) is one of the most promising young musicians emerging from her country. She was nominated for Grand Music Prize...

        ΑΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΗΤΑ ΠΟΙΗΜΑΤΑ, Σελ. 424-425 Για μια στιγμή πίστεψα πως ήταν εκείνη μ΄όλο που ήξερα πως έλειπε κι αυτή που πήρε το πρόσωπο της δίπλα μου κι ήξερα από πριν πως ήταν άλλη; […] κ’ πως μπορείς ν’ αλλάξεις εσύ μ΄αυτό που μόνο του αλλάζει δίχως από σένα η μήπως μόνο από σένα; […] Η ανταλλαγή μορφή και ιδέας προσώπου και...

  “The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don’t own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? ‘Your very own words,’ indeed! And who are you?” “I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all,...

     TO SURVIVE, WITH AT LEAST A MINIMUM AMOUNT OF DECENCY AND SATISFACTION, WE NEED POETRY, EROS AND ART.   WE NEED THESE WONDERFUL HELLENIC WORDS, WHICH START WITH EL THE WORDS OF THE GREATEST HELLENIC POET OF THE 20th CENTURY, ELYTIS: ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ (FREEDOM),  ΕΛΠΙΔΑ (HOPE),  ΕΛΕΟΣ (MERCY ) , ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ (HELLENISM), ΕΛΥΤΙΣΜΟ (ELYTISMO), ΕΛΙΕΣ (OLIVES), ΕΛΑΦΙΑ (DEERS),  ΕΛΕΝΕΣ (HELENS)   ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ     WE...