Hellenic Psyche and Poetic Eros

Edgar Degas , Melancolie, c.1869   And don't ask why I am sad It 's because behind your silence travel the caravans o...

                       Shozo Ozaki Sparrow How much sky do the sparrow's wings need? Two peckings on the inside of t...

                                                   Edward Cucuel, Woman reclining by a lake Anna 3. I will find you. Wherever you s...

C. Polyzou,  Sounio, 2015 The bread A big cob, a huge loaf of hot bread had fallen in the street from the sky a kid with short gre...

                                           Claude Monet, The Road to Giverny in Winter Why should I care about the apple tree blossoms...

                                                             François Kollar, couple,1930 You have no right , I shouted, to carry my ow...

                                                       Vincent Van Gogh, A pair of lovers (fragment) Arles, 1888   Hereafter So f...

                                                 Michalis Economou, houses with a boat The house by the sea I 've always wa...

                                                          Catrin Welz-Stein, a mermaid's love To nest in bushes To nest in sea bus...

        Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Writing on the sand, 1859 Your steps Everything can be hushed but never love; the time when sta...

                         Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Alcaeus and Saphho, 1881 Some say an army of  cavalry or infantry A fleet of sh...

                                                          Diego  Velasquez, Venus at her mirror, 1650 I don’t want to love. I want to a...

Yannis Adamakis , a small voyage,2014 By leaving you come... By now you know: mountains cannot keep us apart. By leaving you c...

Lawrence Alma Tadema, A World Of Their Own, 1905(detail) When tomorrow becomes today when we meet in spring in a next li...

                                                Robert Bereny, Sleeping Lady with Black Vase                                      ...

                                         Henry Fuseli, Achilles searching for the shadow of Patroclus, 1803  LITTLE ILIAD We only l...

                                             Canada geese flock birds , Ireart, Italy                                       ...

                 Dimitris Kondilis The poems I have lived in your body in silence, will ask me, someday, when you leave, their voi...

           Erwin Blumenfeld , Mirror , 1947 "She told me word for word  -If I die How could I live Without you?" Yianni...

                                          Bénigne Gagneraux (1756-1795) Eros wakens Psyche Eros, pain giver, cunning weaver of fan...

                                                    Aristomenis Angelopoulos, Man by the door Oath You that have covered me with your...

                                             Niki Karagatsi ,Taverna in Mykonos,1955 Just a surface Neither happy, nor sad. ...

                                        Apollon Mokritsky.  Italian Women on the Terrace (Tarantella). 1846                   V. .  ...

                                                                                  Juan Miro, Blue II   SHRINKAGE Every day that goes b...

                                                     Arnold Böcklin, Isle of the dead (Basel version, 1880) And our beloved dead? ...

                           Andre Kertesz, Paris 1929 So strange it rains on breakups So strange it rains on breakups, It always ...

   Pierre Bonnard,The letter, c1906 ΤHE LETTER In your coat's pocket old sesame seed pistachio shells and my crumpled lette...