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Nero’s deadline (C.P. CAVAFY)

Nero wasn’t worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: “Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He’s...

22 July, 2020

To the poet who became my critic (KOSTIS PALAMAS)

Whatever you do , wherever you act, whichever race you come from, being mine or a stranger, of the evil! In front of you, you will always have...

30 June, 2020

KOSTIS PALAMAS

Kostis Palamas (Greek: Κωστής Παλαμάς; 13 January [O.S. 8 January] 1859 – 27 February 1943[1]) was a Greek poet who wrote the words...

29 June, 2020

“If I know a flower unique in the world?” (ANTOINE SAINT EXUPERY)

On the fifth day, always with the sheep, that secret the little prince's life was revealed to me. He asked abruptly, without preamble,...

28 June, 2020

Come back (C.P. CAVAFY)

Come back often and take hold of me, sensation that I love come back and take hold of me— when the body’s memory awakens and an...

19 June, 2020

The mind can be a wonderful tool for selfdelusion (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB)

The mind can be a wonderful tool for selfdelusion—it was not designed to deal with complexity and nonlinear uncertainties.! Counter to the common...

05 June, 2020

On the Control of Anger (PLUTARCH)

SULLA. A good plan, as it seems to me, Fundanus,7 is that which painters follow: they scrutinize their productions from time to time...

03 June, 2020

A cloud does not know

“Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of...

01 June, 2020

How poor are they that have not patience! (WAYNE W. DYER)

Patience is a key ingredient in the process of the natural world and in our per- sonal world. For instance, if I scrape my arm...

30 May, 2020

Horace’s Odes

I used to worship the gods grudgingly, and not often, a wanderer expert in a crazy wisdom, but now I am forced to sail back and...

25 May, 2020