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Are poets still around?

“How fate and time brought about not listening to a poet”, wrote Manos Eleftheriou around the 70s, in his poem “Gilded Words (Malamatenia loyia)”. A poem set to music, an almost throbbing hit for summer concerts, as the audience sings with friends and loved ones. The path is long-winded, overwhelme…

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What are your New Year's resolutions for 2022?

I don’t know about you, but I have to admit that New Year’s resolutions were never my strong point. The truth is that by the first week of January, among questions like “How did the holidays pass so soon?” and “How is it possible to still have food left from New Year’s feast?”, I usually fall into…

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“Every man is his own chief enemy”

Yet another night comes, only to find me burning the midnight oil in a tight rope between obsessions and overreactions. My mind has turned disturbing. I give in, transforming into a pawn among them. I give in and surrender with no hesitation, no second thoughts, no restraints. An incriminating fing…

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Education or cultivation

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity” Isocrates, Athenian orator. Confusing the meaning of education with cultivation is a common phenomenon. There is often the belief that education is necessarily accompanied by cultivation. In reality, these are two different concepts…

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Love or virulence?

“Love didn’t meet them at their best, it met them in their mess,” with this “quote” I’ll start writing, and I’ll finish with it, too. Quotes like that flood social media home pages on the daily, while they’re being infused in movies and series, romanticized and normalized leading to a fear of missi…