Alone by Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been

As others were--I have not seen

As others saw--I could not bring

My passions from a common spring--

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow--I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone--

And all I lov'd--I lov'd alone--

Then--in my childhood--in the dawn

Of a most stormy life--was drawn

From ev'ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still--

From the torrent, or the fountain--

From the red cliff of the mountain--

From the sun that 'round me roll'd

In its autumn tint of gold--

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass'd me flying by--

From the thunder, and the storm--

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view--

M.C. Escher

" So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen"

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Pablo Neruda Η νύχτα στο νησί

Όλη τη νύχτα κοιμήθηκα μαζί σου κοντά στη θάλασσα, στο νησί. Ήσουν άγρια και γλυκιά ανάμεσα στην ηδονή και στον ύπνο ανάμεσα στη φωτιά και στο νερό. Ίσως πολύ αργά ενώθηκαν τα όνειρά μας, στα ψηλά ή στα βαθιά, στα ψηλά σαν κλαδιά που κουνάει ο ίδιος άνεμος, στα χαμηλά σαν κόκκινες ρίζες που αγγίζονται. Ίσως το όνειρό σου χωρίστηκε από το δικό μου και στη σκοτεινή θάλασσα με έψαχνε όπως πρώτα υπήρχες όταν δεν ακόμα, όταν χωρίς να σε διακρίνω έπλεα στο πλάι σου, και τα μάτια σου έψαχναν αυτό που τώρα - ψωμί, κρασί, έρωτα και θυμό - σου δίνω με γεμάτα χέρια, γιατί εσύ είσαι το κύπελλο που περίμενε τα δώρα της ζωής μου. Κοιμήθηκα μαζί σου όλη τη νύχτα, ενώ η σκοτεινή γη γυρίζει με ζωντανούς και νεκρούς, και σαν ξύπνησα ξάφνου καταμεσής στη σκιά το μπράτσο μου τύλιγε τη μέση σου. Ούτε η νύχτα, ούτε ο ύπνος μπόρεσαν να μας χωρίσουν. Κοιμήθηκα μαζί σου και ξύπνησα με το στόμα σου βγαλμένο από τον ύπνο να μου δίνει τη γεύση από τη γη, από τη θάλασσα, από τα φύκια, από το βάθος της ζωής σου, και δέχτηκα το φιλί σου μουσκεμένο από την αυγή σαν να έφθανε από τη θάλασσα που μας περιβάλλει.

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