"Hisperica...famina" Anonymous

Το πελαγος αυτο περιμενει αφριζοντας τους κοσμικους τοπους
με κυματα ποταμια δερνει της γηινες ακτες.
Πανω σε βραχους αβιονιους χιμαει με ογκους απο κυματα.

Αναταραζει τα χαλικια με στροβιλο γεματο βομβους
τιναζει αφρους κι αγρια αυλακωνεται
απανωτα ταραζεται απο πνευματα γεματους ηχους.

Vivaldi, Autumn

James Joyce

 You are my only love. You have me completely in your power. I know and feel that if I am to write anything fine and noble in the future I shall do so only by listening at the doors of your heart. I would like to go through life side by side with you, telling you more and more until we grew to be one being together until the hour should come for us to die.

On Poetry and Poets

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."

Edgar Allan Poe

 

"To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee."
Emily Dickinson

 "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

Oscar Wilde

 "Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; 

out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry."

W.B. Yeats

 "Always be a poet, even in prose."

Charles Baudelaire

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

Paul Valéry 

 "Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

Robert Frost

 "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

Percy Byshe Shelley

"Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is."

James Branch Cabell

 "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

T.S. Eliot

 "The poet doesn't invent.  He listens."

Jean Cocteau

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