Comments & Greek paintings, Greek artists: there’ll be a suspicion of sea...

Greek poets & Greek artists, Greek painters


Yannis Stavrou, Moon Shine, oil on canvas

About the Greek poet, Miltos Sachtouris...

...The rejection of a decorative use of poetic language, and the greatest possible condensing as a permanent method for creating style are two elements that accompany Miltos Sachtouris in most of his collections. Things and their uses are described with relative fidelity, poetic action is enhanced thanks to a quick succession of images-episodes, whilst the descriptive part of the narration (space layout, details about the elements that demarcate it) is minimised to the lowest possible degree...

From Introduction to Miltos Sachtouris poetics, by Yiannis Dallas

Miltos Sachtouris

The Poet

When they find me on the cross of my death
the sky around will have reddened far beyond
there’ll be a suspicion of sea
and, from above, in a now terrifying darkness
a white bird will recite my songs.

The Saint

He stared deep
deep
into the well
its depth
had no end
in this life

the flesh peeled off
and fell bit by bit
soon nothing would remain
but his skeleton

I’ve decided - he said -
I’ve finally decided
I’ll live among the drowned
and among the lepers

Comments & Greek paintings, Greek artists: Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition...

Aphorisms & Greek artists, Greek paintings, Greek painters


Yannis Stavrou, Still Life, oil on canvas

A great mind...

About human nature...

Michel de Montaigne
Aphorisms

• A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
• A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
• A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
• Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
• Ambition is not a vice of little people.
• An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
• An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
• Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
• Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
• Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
• Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
• Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
• Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
• Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
• Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
• Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
• Few men have been admired of their familiars.
• For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
• He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
• He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
• How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
• How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
• I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
• I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
• I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
• I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
• I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
• I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
• I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
• I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
• I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
• I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
• If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Comments & Greek artists, Greek painters: and unprepared as we are - now no time left - tears us apart...

Poetry & Greek artists, Greek painters, modern Greek artists


Yannis Stavrou, Morning At the Port, oil on canvas

As catastrophic events happen every day...

As most of our actions cause the fall of modern civlization...

Only poetry is able to observe...

Finished
Konstantinos Kavafis

In fear and suspicions,

in mind disturbed and frightened eyes,

as we melt down we design how to act

to avoid the danger

the unavoidable thus horribly threatening us.

Yet we err, it isn't this on our way;

false were the messages

(we didn't listen to them or didn't rightly sense).

A different disaster, never imagined,

abrupt, rapid falls upon us,

and unprepared as we are - now no time left - tears us apart.

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Source: ELLOPOS.NET

Comments & Greek artists, Greek painters: Open always, always watching, the eyes of my soul...

Greek poetry & Greek artists, Greek painters, Greek paintings


Yannis Stavrou, Hydra landscape, oil on canvas

A great Greek poet...

The so called national poet of Greece...

Dionysios Solomos
Free Besieged


SWEET and free the soul, like she is gone, / and they raised in smile the wounded front.

15.

Have you as many has the East and as many the West wishes.

22.

Chasm of quake bringing forth flowers that tremor in the air.

23.

Thousands of sounds innumerous, in great creation's depths; / The East was starting it, ending it the West. / Some from the East and from the West some; / Every sound had a joy, every joy a love.

32.

Complaint waste of time in whatever one might lose.

33.

Joy in my eyes I wish to see, the much beloved, / Cruel dream revealed into the shroud shut.

36.

Open always, always watching, the eyes of my soul.

41.

Small light and far in darkness great and desolate.

43.

To depth from depth falls until was no one left; / there of came forth invincible.

49.

Probes you the stone you hold, and holds itself a voice.

52.

In this world flows and in worlds beyond arrives.

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Source: ELLOPOS.NET

Comments & Greek artists, Greek painters: time for journey...

Travel & Greek artists, Greek painters, Greek paintings


Yannis Stavrou, Marine landscape, oil on paper

It's time to travel far away from here!

As the number of mental diseases increases rapidly in our times...

As we meet dozen of phychopaths both in public and private life every day...

It is not a surprise that a new, updated catalogue of mental diseases is about to be created...

Well, hurry up..! We are sure that everyone of us is ready to add a new case...

The relative announcement is posted on the official website of American Psychiatric Association: http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx

Publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013 will mark one the most anticipated events in the mental health field.

As part of the development process, the preliminary draft revisions to the current diagnostic criteria for psychiatric diagnoses are now available for public review and comment. We thank you for your interest in DSM-5 and hope that you use this opportunity not only to learn more about the proposed changes in DSM-5, but also about its history, its impact, and its developers. Please continue to check this site for updates to criteria and for more information about the development process.

Proposed Draft Revisions to DSM Disorders and Criteria

The draft disorders and disorder criteria that have been proposed by the DSM-5 Work Groups can be found on these pages. Use the links below to read about proposed changes to the disorders that interest you. Please note that the proposed criteria listed here are not final. These are initial drafts of the recommendations that have been made to date by the DSM-5 Work Groups. Viewers will be able to submit comments until April 20, 2010. After that time, this site will be available for viewing only.