mcassapidis, 2013

april swallows by river-road//χελιδόνια απριλίου στον ποταμόδρομο

april swallows ©m.cassapidis

Φεβρουάριος/February

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent van Gogh

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εκκρεμές- pendulum

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In what sense I am I

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As in Giorgione
the suspense
is eternal.

Carl Rakosi, "In What Sense I Am I" from The Collected Poems, published by the National Poetry Foundation.

standing

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I Am Not I

By Juan Ramón Jiménez

Translated By Robert Bly

 

I am not I.

                   I am this one

walking beside me whom I do not see,

whom at times I manage to visit,

and whom at other times I forget;

who remains calm and silent while I talk,

and forgives, gently, when I hate,

who walks where I am not,

who will remain standing when I die.

Juan Ramón Jiménez, “‘I Am Not I’” from Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems. Translation copyright © 1973 by Robert Bly. Reprinted with the permission of Beacon Press.


Source: Lorca and Jimenez: Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 1973)

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lightplay

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We have come into this exquisite world
to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Hafiz

let's be still

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winter light : a sonnet

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I don't know why I love sonnets.

I can see one forming on a winter walk
The trees bowing in the evening light

inner harmony

rocks and grass, ©fourteenth

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.

Edward Witten

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Artists create out of a sense of desolation : El Greco

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                                           Artists create out of a sense of desolation.
                                           The spirit of creation is an excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

                                        
                                           El Greco

A weightless word : Octavio Paz

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       Una palabra de poco peso
       para saludar al día
       una palabra de vuelo a vela
          Ah!
       A weightless word
       to greet the day
       a word for setting sail
         Ah!


       Octavio Paz
       from Salamander

...windswept small, dry leaves

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Thursday evening

Walking uphill

whirling circles

of windswept small, dry leaves

at my feet

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

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Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Theodore Roethke

Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

Rabindranath Tagore: Listen, my heart...

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Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes love to you.

Rabindranath Tagore

from Stray Birds

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With infinite thanks 
to my mother

long shadows, summer grass

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