G'mork: Foolish boy. Don't you know anything about Fantasia? It's the world of human fantasy. Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries.
Atreyu: But why is Fantasia dying, then?
G'mork: Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So the Nothing grows stronger.
Atreyu: What is the Nothing?
G'mork: It's the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it.
Atreyu: But why?
G'mork: Because people who have no hopes are easy to control. And whoever has control has the Power.
The NeverEnding Story, 1984 Movie from Michael Ende Novel
To the Oracle at Delphi
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
O long-silent Sybil,
You of the winged dreams,
Speak out from your temple of light
as the serious constellations
with Greek names
still stare down on us...
To the Oracle at Delphi
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
... Speak out and shine upon us
the sea-light of Greece
the diamond light of Greece...
To the Oracle at Delphi
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
...And give us new dreams to dream,
Give us new myths to live by!
Flying to Skiathos
Santorini
Twilight
(Tramonto sulle colline)
Lidia Chiarelli
Premio "Il vino nella letteratura"
Santo Stefano Belbo 2014
Stripes
of red and purple
(marks left by the hand
of an invisible painter)
light
the vineyards on the hills
on this
long
summer evening...
― Homer, The Odyssey
“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”
Impression du Voyage
Oscar Wilde (1881)
... And a red sun upon the seas to ride,
I stood upon the soil of Greece at last!
Impression du Voyage
Oscar Wilde (1881)
The sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky
Burned like a heated opal through the air,
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
For the blue lands that to the eastward lie....
