"for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness" THE ORANGE GIRL She became so intoxicated by the sun's juice That she bowed her head and consented Slowly slowly to become: the little Orange Girl ! And so while the seven skies glittered with blue And so while the crystals touched a fire And so while swallow-tails flashed Angels above were bewildered and girls below Storks above were bewildered and peacocks below And all gathered together and saw her together And all together called her: the little Orange Girl ! Vineshoots and scorpions reel drunkenly the whole world is drunk But the sting of dawn will not leave pain alone The dwarf heron says it amid the earthworms The drip-drop of water says it amid golden moments And the dew says it to the lips of the good North Wind: Get up O small small small Orange Girl ! No one knows you as the kiss knows you Nor does the laughing god know you Who with his hand open to the flaming glare of the sun Exposes you naked before his thirty-two winds Odysseus Elytis, recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born to a wealthy family in Iraklion, Crete. His original name was Odysseus Alepoudhelis. He used the pseudonym to distinguish his writing from the family soap manufaturing business. He attended the University of Athens School of Law, but he dropped out to pursue his literary career. He ...
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Cavafy's poem H POLIS read by ELLi LAMBETi - The City You said, "I will go to another land, I will go to another sea. Another city will be found, better than this. Every effort of mine is condemned by fate; and my heart is -- like a corpse -- buried. How long in this wasteland will my mind remain. Wherever I turn my eyes, wherever I may look I see the black ruins of my life here, where I spent so many years, and ruined and wasted." New lands you will not find, you will not find other seas. The city will follow you. You will roam the same streets. And you will age in the same neighborhoods; in these same houses you will grow gray. Always you will arrive in this city. To another land -- do not hope -- there is no ship for you, there is no road. As you have ruined your life here in this little corner, you have destroyed it in the whole world. Constantine P. Cavafy (1910) Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis (1863-1933) is one of the better known Greek poets of the 20th century. Born of Greek parents in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1863, he was their ninth and last child. His only known formal education was a brief enrollment in the Hermis Lyceum, a commercial school in Alexandria. Appointed clerk in the Ministry of Public Works in Alexandria in 1892, he held this position until his retirement in 1922. He died in Alexandria in 1933. Almost all of Kavafis' work was in Greek; yet, his poetry remained unrecognized in Greece until after the publication of his first anthology in 1935. He is known ...
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PREVEZA by Kostas Karyotakis Death is the crows clattering on dark walls and roof-tiles; death - those women who make love as if they were peeling onions. Death these grimy, insignificant streets with their great, illustrious names, the olive grove, in all directions the sea, and even the sun - death amid deaths. Death - that cop who wraps up an "Insufficient" serving and weighs it; death - these hyacinths on the balcony and that teacher with the newspaper. Base, Garrison, Platoon of Preveza. On Sunday we'll hear the band. I got a savings book from the bank, first deposit - thirty drachmas. Walking slowly on the wharf you say, "Do I exist" and then, "You do not exist!" The ship arrives, Raised flag. Perhaps His Honor the Governor is coming. If, among these people, just one would die from disgust . . . Silent, sad, decorous, we'd all have fun at the funeral. Kostas Karyotakis is a Greek poet influenced by the 19th-century French Symbolist poets. He born in Tripolis at 1896 and died in Preveza at 1928. Kariotakis spent most of his lonely childhood in Crete. He read law at Athens and won a prize for poetry in 1920. After obtaining his degree he worked as a government clerk in Athens, where he developed a friendship with the young poet Maria Polidouri. Later he was transferred to Patrai and thence to Preveza, where he shot himself (July 20, 1928). Karyotakis' two volumes of poetry show the influence of the New School of Poetry of Athens, founded in about 1880 by Kostis ...
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Poem of the Greek poet Konstantinos Kavafis.
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Dunseath family reads a Khalil Gibran poem at Manny & Celine's wedding in Greece on 21 August 2010. On Marriage Kahlil Gibran You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
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Co-editors Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck and Peter Constantine read at an event dedicated to their new anthology "The Greek Poets: From Homer to The Present". The event took place Dec. 11, 2009 at The Cathedral School in Manhattan as a part of the school's 60th Anniversary celebrations.
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Remarkably haunting rendition of DW Myatt's translation. The gentle aura, measured pace transports you to Old Greece and the oracular Mysteries. Sound effects and music (including piano and strings) are subtle, tantalising. The voice, clear, sonorous, beautiful, yearning. Sublimely evocative of female love and unadorned beauty of Sappho's Greek. Composed and performed by Christos Beest, Sister Lianna, and Wulfran Hall. Translated by David Myatt Artwork by Christos Beest Fragment 34 Awed by her brightness Stars near the beautiful moon Cover their own shining faces When she lights earth With her silver brilliance Of love .... Fragment 31 I see he who sits near you as an equal of the gods For he can closely listen to your delightful voice And that seductive laugh That makes the heart behind my breasts to tremble. Even when I glimpse you for a moment My tongue is stilled as speech deserts me While a delicate fire is beneath my skin - My eyes cannot see, then, When I hear only a whirling sound As I shivering, sweat Because all of me trembles; I become paler than drought-grass And nearer to death ... DW Myatt translation: www.cosmicbeing.info MP3 Format: www.mediafire.com
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An e-mail came to me saying if i do a combination word it will bring a surprise to my screen.I done that and here are the results....
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Music: 'Olde Timey' - Kevin MacLeod www.incompetech.com I know it's been ages since my last video. I'm sorry. school is hard. It's been exactly 365 days since my last video after a pretty long hiatus. I like anniversaries too much. The poem that I quoted at the end as by John Keats is actually 'Tulipomania' by Katrina Vandenberg. I just thought saying it was by a famous poet would make it funnier. Here's the text to my poem Ten peasants peered into the peripteral temple. The priest got pretty pissed and pushed them all away. They simply proposed to him that were keen to stay abreast Of the proceedings and practices that went on from day to day. Now, the priest, ever punctual, and peevish at best, In his usual prickly manner, replied to this request: Of course not! You'll just make a mess! Now clear off! I'm busy today!" A terrible tempest presented itself, and proved to be quite a pest, So the petty Poseidon preacher set out upon a way, To save the people from the wind coming in from the west. He knew that the growing storm must mean a god is going mental. So he sought a sound solution to put the god's anger at bay. He made an immolation, with libations and a cow. The cow expressed distation with pathetic lacrimation, And rather odd lactation, which led the priest to raise a brow. Even so, the cow was slaughtered, on the altar made of mortar. The priest just prayed his daughter didn't see him do the deed. But this was not his lucky day. His daughter, known as Lula-May ...
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From better times in Greece. OWL I stayed in the harbour of the town. High above it was the ruined castle. It was not mentioned in the guides: KARYSTOS then was not a tourist town and the impressive ruin was not a part of anyone's concern as I could tell. One day - the last of three or four I stayed there - I set off to find the way. There was a path that rose from the backstreets of the town. On crumbling, rough-hewn steps past tangled gardens, orchards, fig trees; along ancient dry-stone walls and through the scent of pines the path pulled upwards. The climb was timeless: the only record of its length the diminishing size of the harbour and the town below. Although the seasonal wind was rife the route was sheltered in a scented warmth; tiers of sandstone dust, pine-needles and footworn stone embraced the smells of jasmine, mule-dung, orange-blossom and hot dry-rot from long abandoned houses clinging to the way. Three riders and a riderless horse passed me as I crossed a winding road. The beasts were pacing downhill as slowly as the native tortoises do. The castle, always in my direct view, was nearer then: the town itself invisible behind the hunchback of the hill. Far below the craft upon the waters of the Gulf were white birds roosting on a cloth of deepest blue. I mount a dilapidated wall to glimpse the sheltered, sea-side town but still there is no sight of it. There are warer-melons growing, recumbent on the shaded earth of an ancient garden; an array of implements ...
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My favorite scene from Dead Poet's Society with Greek Subtitles. Added Simon and Garfunkle's "Sounds of Silence" to it. Visit us today at www.primetimeprintonline.com or www.vintagevhs.net
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Firostefani Santorini - 84 700 Greece - Tel.: +30 22860.24.661-3 Fax: +30 22860.24.660 Email: info@homericpoems.gr - www.homericpoems.gr Athens Sales office: TGE Consultants -- Luxury Hotel Collection Tel. / Fax: +30 210 9848687 email: info@tge.gr -- www.tge.gr With a total of twenty Apartments and Suites, the Homeric Poems offers seclusion and an air of exclusivity. No matter which you choose, each room is beautifully appointed and offers expansive living areas, cozy bedrooms, elegant bathrooms and in the case of the Grand Suites, wonderfully special touches found only at the Homeric Poems. The chef Dimitris Skarmoutsos guides you in a journey of savour revelation of the Greek creative cuisine, based on the monumental simplicity of the first material and products of Santorini and the Aegean islands. Discover the gastronomic temptations through your "journey" in Homeric Poems.
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ERT- National Greek Television (NET News): 22nd World Congress of Poets (Larissa, Greece, June 29 - July 3, 2011): The World Congress of Poets (WCP) by United Poets Laureate International (UPLI) was held for the first time in Greece, since 1969. President of 22nd World Congress of Poets was elected the Greek poet and medical doctor Dimitris P. Kraniotis. The aim of the World Congress of Poets is "World Brotherhood and Peace through Poetry". During the 22nd World Congress of Poets, taken place the 1st Mediterranean Poetry Festival, which founded by Dimitris P. Kraniotis and will be held every 2 years, in Larissa, Greece.
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Heres a virtual movie of Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes the Celebrated Greek poet reading his best known poem "Ithaca". Cavafy wrote Ithaca, inspired by the Homeric return journey of Odysseus to his home island, as depicted in the Odyssey. The poem's theme is that enjoyment of the journey of life, and the increasing maturity of the soul as that journey continues, are all the traveler can ask. Almost all of Konstantinos Kavafis' work was in Greek; yet, his poetry remained unrecognized in Greece until after the publication of his first anthology in 1935. He is known for his prosaic use of metaphors, his brilliant use of historical imagery, and his aesthetic perfectionism. These attributes, amongst others, have assured him an enduring place in the literary pantheon of the Western World. Constantine P. Cavafy (April 29, 1863 -- April 29, 1933) was a renowned Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. In his poetry he examined critically some aspects of Christianity, patriotism, and homosexuality, though he was not always comfortable with his role as a nonconformist. He published 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. His most important poetry was written after his fortieth birthday. Cavafis is considered as possibly the greatest modern Greek poet Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2011 Ithaca ...
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Matsie Chatjilazaros (1914-1987) is one of the best women poets in Greece. Started her literary adventure with other surrealist poets in the first years after World War II and continued in France where she met Castoriadis, Picasso etc. She is considered as one of the most authentic voices in Greek poetry. An illustrated book published by Topos books on her life and work [written by scholar Christos Daniil: ''Aqua Marina, Matsie Chatjilazaros, the first surrealist woman in Greece'' (in Greek: «Ιούς, Μανιούς ίσως και Aqua Marina, Mάτση Χατζηλαζάρου, η πρώτη ελληνίδα υπερρεαλίστρια»)] is the pretext for this video where she reads one of her best known poems.
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Best of the modern British Poets, or to be more biassed, Liverpool poets. He deserves to be the next Poet Laureate.
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Remarkably haunting rendition of DW Myatt's translation. The gentle aura, measured pace transports you to Old Greece and the oracular Mysteries. Sound effects and music (including piano and strings) are subtle, tantalising. The voice, clear, sonorous, beautiful, yearning. Sublimely evocative of female love and unadorned beauty of Sappho's Greek. Composed and performed by Christos Beest, Sister Lianna, and Wulfran Hall. Translated by David Myatt Artwork by Christos Beest Fragment 41 Beautiful girls, towards you My thoughts will never change .... Fragment 1 Deathless Aphrodite -- Daughter of Zeus and maker of snares - On your florid throne, hear me! My lady, do not subdue my heart by anguish and pain But come to me as when before You heard my distant cry, and listened: Leaving, with your golden chariot yoked, your father's house To move beautiful sparrows swift with a whirling of wings As from heaven you came to this dark earth through middle air And so swiftly arrived. Then you my goddess with your immortal lips smiling Would ask what now afflicts me, why again I am calling and what now I with my restive heart Desired: Whom now shall I beguile To bring you to her love? Who now injures you, Sappho? For if she flees, soon shall she chase And, rejecting gifts, soon shall she give. If she does not love you, she shall do so soon Whatsoever is her will. Come to me now to end this consuming pain Bringing what my heart desires to be brought: Be yourself my ally in this fight ...
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Archilochus, or, Archilochos (Greek: Ἀρχίλοχος) (c. 680 BC -- c. 645 BC)[nb 1] was a poet from the island of Paros in the Archaic period in Greece celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of poetic meters and as the earliest known Greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences. source: en.wikipedia.org Original in Uppercases ΕΠΙΚΛΗΣΙΣΔΙΟΣ ΩZEYΠATEPZEYΣONMENOYPANOYKPATOΣ ΣYΔEPΓEΠANΘPΩΠΩNOPAIΣΛEΩPΓAKAIΘE MIΣTAΣOIEΘHPIΩNYBPIΣTEKAIΔIKHMEΛEIΩ ZEYΠATEPZEYΔIKOΣOYEINAITOBAΣIΛEIOT OYOYPANOYKAIΣYEIΣAIΠOYEΠOΠTEYEIΣTA EPΓAΤΩNANΘPΩΠΩNTOΣOTAANOΣIAOΣOK AITAΘEMITAKAIΔIKOΣOYMEΛHMAEINAITΩN ΘHPIΩNHYBPIΣKAIHΔIKAIHTIMΩPIA Modern Version ΕΠΙΚΛΗΣΙΣ ΔΙΟΣ INVOCATION OF ZEUS Ὦ Ζεῦ͵ πάτερ Ζεῦ͵ σὸν μὲν οὐρανοῦ κράτος͵ σὺ δ΄ ἔργ΄ ἐπ΄ ἀνθρώπων ὁρᾶις λεωργὰ καὶ θεμιστά͵ σοὶ δὲ θηρίων ὕβρις τε καὶ δίκη μέλει! Ώ Ζεύ, πάτερ Ζεύ, δικό Σου είναι το Βασίλειο τ' Οὐρανοῦ, και Συ είσαι που εποπτεύεις τα έργα των ανθρώπων, τόσο τα ανόσια όσο και τα θεμιτά, και δικό Σου μέλημα είναι των «θηρίων» η ύβρις και η δίκαιη τιμωρία! Translation INVOCATION TO ZEUS Oh Zeus, father Zeus, Yours is the Kingdom of Heaven, and you watch men's deeds, the crafty and the right, and You are who cares for beasts' transgression and justice.
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Cavafy-Greece in poetry and music. Alexandra sings Cavafy, Seferis, Ritsos and Elytis set to music.
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Greek Poets' protest against economic austerity in central Athens, 21 March 2012. Διαμαρτυρία Ποιητών κατά της οικονομικής λιτότητας στο κέντρο της Αθήνας, στις 21 Μαρτίου 2012.
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