The Art of Poetry

21/10/2024

"Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living."
Vanessa Redgrave (b. 1937)

Dame Vanessa Redgrave DBE is an English actress. Throughout her career spanning over six decades, she has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and an Olivier Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.

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02/07/2024

"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring ,Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again, And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now, And deck thee with holly's sheen, That, when December blights thy brow, He still may leave thy garland green."
Emily Dickinson

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)
The Garland, 1899

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19/01/2024

Elie Wiesel...

28/12/2023

"As a White Stone..." Anna AhmatovaTranslated by Eugeny Bonver, August, 2000Edited by Orit Bonver, August, 2000About Anna Ahmatova: http://en.wikipedia.org/...

19/10/2023

“When you ask for peace, you’re asking not to kill a stranger’s child and imagine that you’re accomplishing something.”

Sharon Stone...October 2023

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06/07/2023

Leonard Cohen...

In this clip from 1966, a young Leonard Cohen explores the roots of his poetry with CBC-TV host Adrienne Clarkson. In this excerpt from Take 30, Cohen reject...

13/11/2022

Νοσταλγία (Nostalgia)

From the depth of good times
our loves greet us bitterly

You’re not in love, you say, and you don’t remember.
And if your heart has filled and you shed the tears
that you couldn’t shed like you did at first,
you’re not in love and you don’t remember, even though you cry.

Suddenly you’ll see two blue eyes
- how long it’s been! - that you caressed one night;
as though inside yourself you hear
an old unhappiness stirring and waking up.

These memories of time past
will begin their danse macabre;
and like then, your bitter tear will
well up on your eyelid and fall.

The eyes suspended - pale suns -
the light that thaws the frozen heart

Kostas Karyotakis

Translated by Keith Taylor and William W. Reader

Kostas Karyotakis (1896 - 1928) is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece. His poetry conveys a great deal of nature, imagery and traces of expressionism and surrealism. He also belongs to the Greek Lost Generation movement. (wikipedia)

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