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Kiki Dimoula

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Born and raised in Athens, Greece, Kiki Dimoula worked for many years at the Bank of Greece before leaving to care for her two children full-time. Her first collection of poems translated into English was  The Brazen Plagiarist: Selected Poems  (2012, translated by Cecile I. Margellos and Rika Lesser). Earlier collections

The poet of peace and love

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Nikiforos Vrettakos, is one among the greatest poets and prose writers of Greece. Vrettakos has won a number of prizes and medals and has been nominated four times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Nikiforos Vrettakos was born on 1st January 1912 in the village of Krokees, Laconia. He lived

As Much As You Can

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Even if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk. Do not degrade it by dragging it along, taking it around and exposing it so often to the daily silliness of social relations and parties, until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on. Constantine P. Cavafy

The plural - Poem by KIki Dimoula

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Love, a noun - alias substantive, indeed substantive, in the singular form, neither feminine nor masculine,

Summer Solstice IX

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You spoke of things they did not see and they laughed. But you row the dark river upon the waters; you take the unknown road blindly, stubborn and search for deeprooted words like a multiknotted olive tree –

Ithaka by C. P. Cavafy

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The People’s Poet

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Kostas Varnalis was a Greek poet, writer and journalist. He has written poems, narrative works, criticism and translations. His work has a well-formed form and plasticity in expression. It is characterized

Top 10 Ancient Greece Poets You Need to Know

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Ancient Greek literature influenced the Latin Literature first and foremost, and then the European literature until the 18th century. Ancient Greece is considered one of the first civilizations, and arguably one of the most important in world history. With knowledge in