INDIA (44)

I wish to travel to India,a journey that is long
I wish to be a long long time gone...

SUMMER FINDS (102)

The sea is my home, the sandy beach my blooming land, I sleep under the stars, the breeze blowing in the reeds my music grand

A key and a teardrop (141)

A key and a teardrop

Secret key (139)

Secret key

STARRY NIGHTS (91)

When we are together, our days are bright; our nights shine under the starlight

A dream (171)

I was flying high up in the sky, never wondered where I got my wings to fly...

THE DREAM (66)

I had a dream long before I met you and in the dream I knew that I would love you

FULL MOON (92)

When the moon is full I wish I could sleep in your arms, and together we would fly to the stars

THOUGHTS LIKE BIRDS (81)

If your thoughts are like birds that you keep locked up in a cage
I’m giving you the key
to set them free

DUSK (85)

Colours become sweeter at dusk
You can see the islands, they look so beautiful afar

At the bottom of the sea (143)

I was sleeping for years at the bottom of the sea, at the bottom of the sea side by side with a white sea shell

WINGS OF LOVE (45)

You feel a breeze upon your face
It’s the wings of love

Key-kiss (140)

Key kiss

Winter night (136)

In a cold winter night, in your arms you hold me tight,
and I forget all about my old life.

A thousand sweet little words (138)

Wear it around your wrist and hear my voice whispering sweet tender little words

HOURS (93)

Hours seem endless when I am not with you, how come they are so short when I am near you

The sea once (146)

The sea once had lifted us upon her wings / we used to go down to sleep with her / we used to fish birds up in the air with her / we used to swim into the voices and the colours during the day / at nights, we used to lie under the trees and the clouds /
we used to wake up in the middle of the night just to sing (...)

THE SUN TONIGHT (153)

The sun tonight is sweet /
And the birds light up in their ecstasy

The cold earth is bringing up the spring

Hello to the sea (145)

Life is no madness
Life is swimming in the wind

COME AND SEE THE SPRING (152)

Come and see the spring walking/
waving to us while hugging the clouds/
Come and see my daughter / how she is grown / singing with a voice that is not her own
Singing with a pulse so strong,
a pulse of the whole world

I NEED TO GO FOR A WALK (158)

I need to go for a walk / to go for a walk with the trees / in a world full of waters

THE SEA WAS TORN INTO PIECES (157)

The sea was torn into countless crystals / we picked them up and we ride with the wind

THE SADNESS THE GARDEN (154)

(...) Like the sea shells I have loved / At first dawn / in my sea-years

It was a laughing day (167)

There was a laughing day, everybody dancing on that day.
There was a time when our heart opened for the flowers to come in.

I SPEAK (144)

I speak because there is a sky that listens
I speak because your eyes speak

THE AIR ITSELF IS A FLOWER (155)

The air itself is a flower / Now / I feel it cool on my face / I feel it cool on my own eyes

The sun never rests (177)

WHO IS FOOL FOR LOVE (156)

Who is fool for love / should dig holes in dawn / let us go there / and drink the rain

At the top of the sea (170)

COME BACK (28)

Come back often and take hold of me
sensation that I love…
translated by EDMUND KEELY and PHILIP SHERRARD

I WENT (54)

I didn’t hold myself back. I gave in completely and went. And drunk strong wine, the way the champions of pleasure drink


translated by EDMUND KEELY and PHILIP SHERRARD

THE CITY (31)

You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one”

translated by EDMUND KEELY and PHILIP SHERRARD

MORNING SEA (53)

Let me stop here. Let me, too, look at nature a while. The brilliant blue of the morning sea, of the cloudless sky,t

ranslated by EDMUND KEELY and PHILIP SHERRARD

Ithaca (164)

(...with what pleasure), what joy,( you come into harbors seen for the first time…)

ITHAKA (107)

May there be many a summer morning when, with what pleasure, what joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time…

ITHAKA (30)

As you set out for Ithaca
hope the voyage is a long one
full of adventure, full of discovery

translated by EDMUND KEELY and PHILIP SHERRARD

ITHAKA (29)

Laistrygonians and Cyclops/ wild Poseidon – you won’t encounter
them
unless you bring them along inside your soul


translated by EDMUND KEELY and PHILIP SHERRARD

ITHAKA (27)

Wild Poseidon you won’t encounter…,

translated by EDMUND KEELY and PHILIP SHERRARD

ITHAKA (26)

Keep Ithaca always in your mind
Arriving there is what you are destined for
But do not hurry the journey at all ,

translated by EDMUND KEELY and PHILIP SHERRARD

ITHAKA (25)

Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey
Without her you would not have set out
She has nothing left to give you now

translated by EDMUND KEELY and PHILIP SHERRARD

THE WALLS (86)

With no consideration, no pity, no shame, they’ve built walls around me, thick and high. And now I sit here feeling hopeless. I can’t think of anything else: this fate gnaws my mind – because I had so much to do outside. When they were building the walls, how could I not have noticed!/ But I never heard the builders, not a sound./ Imperceptibly they’ve closed me off from the outside world.

Voice from the Sea (151)

OF LOVE (173)

OF LOVE (174)

OF LOVE (168)

OF LOVE (172)

OF LOVE (35)

Of all the stars that shine up in the sky
There’s only one that looks exactly like you
The one that rises at sweet dawn

OF LOVE (34)

If you love me and it’s a dream
I never want to wake up
Because I long to die with your love

OF LOVE (169)

EROTOKRITOS (40)

Into this world a constant love dawned bright to blend two hearts in its unfailing light

EROTOKRITOS (76)

Your likeness has been painted on my mind

EROTOKRITOS (73)

The cycles with their traits that rise and fall
Time’s wheel that knows the height and depth of all

EROTOKRITOS (57)

How can my heart then fail you? It was cast
By you yourself into love’s furnace - blast

EROTOKRITOS (52)

Much they would speak, but words do flee, their mouths fall mute, hearts speak for thee

HELEN (126)

Heaven is common for all mortals

IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS (125)

The sea washes away all human evil

ORESTES (124)

Change is always sweet

ORESTES (142)

After the storm I see calmness again.

QUOTES (37)

I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free

QUOTES (36)

You‘ve got the brushes, you‘ve got the colours, just draw Paradise and get in

QUOTES (90)

They asked the almond tree about God and the almond tree blossomed

QUOTES (65)

Our life is just a lightning but we still have time

ANTIGONE (122)

Tis not my nature to join in hating, but in loving
(I was not born to hate, but to love )

ANTIGONE (121)

Love, unconquered in the fight, Love, who makest havoc of wealth, who keepest thy vigil on the soft cheek of a maiden; (...)
(Sophocles, Antigone, written 442 B.C., translated in english by R. C. Jebb)

QUOTE (128)

Time leads things to oblivion

Tireus (132)

Noone is born better than anybody else

Please, stop... (178)

Please, stop... (176)

When are we going to sail (175)

Fragment 18 (165)

In golden sandals, dawn, like a thief, fell upon me

Fragment 9 (?) (166)

The moon has set equally over the salt sea and flowerdeep fields

ATTHIS (84)

Love, like the wind, shook my thoughts, like the wind on the mountains, that bends the oak trees

QUOTE (127)

The words of truth are simple

PERSIANS (123)

It is delightful to see the light

AMORGOS WATER (79)

THE CASTLE IN ASTYPALEA (78)

TAKE MY HEART (67)

Take my heart I want to lose it
Take my heart I’ll never use it

SUMMERTIME (137)

Summertime and the living is easy

QUOTE (42)

You are not a drop in the ocean
You are the entire ocean in a drop

PERFECT DAY (43)

Just a perfect day
I’ m glad I spent it with you
Oh such a perfect fay
you just keep me hanging on

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SEA (39)

The most beautiful sea hasn’t been crossed yet
And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you, I haven’t said yet

IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING (83)

In a manner of speaking I just want to say
that I could never forget the way
you told me everything by saying nothing

Find time (133)

Find time to make dreams, dreams will carry you up to the stars.

1 Corinthians 13 (134)

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. (...)
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

SERENITY (41)

You can’t hear a wave
At the lonely shore
As if the sea is sleeping
Into earth’s arms ,

SUMMER BREEZE (87)

My sweet love, only if you knew, you‘re like honey to me…
The beautiful buds, that smell so nice and the light summer breeze, nothing can cure me like you do…