WHAT WAS WRITTEN ABOUT PATMOS...

" Friday, September the 16th of 1955. The day before and a little after midnight," I came in the island called Patmos". As the day was breaking, I was up in Chora. The sea, still as metal, tied the islands around. No breath, not even one leaf in the growing light. The serenity was a totally unfissured shell. I stayed as nailed by this enforcement.  Afterwards I felt myself whispering  "come and see".

George Seferis "the Revelation of John".

"The little thought as the hail of a bird,

from the heights  is aiming at the flesh,

 at the dry tree, the hard stone thrown

from the invincible dream.

And towards Patmos is turned the heart

And withering  the bitter blossom."

Dimitri Papaditsas. "in Patmos".

PATMOS

" It's before you known it that death alters.

From being alive with its fingerprints on us

Half wild, hair in disorder, we bend

Gesturing on unintelligible harps.

But the world is leaving?

Go, go twice beauty does not happen nor love.

Odysseus Elytis  "from Maria Nefeli"  

"Patmos is a very innocent island. In 1963 there was only one rich country house and this discreetly hidden somewhere. Early morning old women were taking incense to the churches when no liturgy was celebrated. The afternoon a fisherman would fall asleep on his nets in some shade by the side of his three year old son. Basil was growing everywhere in pots. The countryside was full of small lizards. A small child, met just fortuitously on the square, told that the face of John had been seen to appear on the corroded hole where he used to sleep?"

Peter Levi " The Hill of Cronos"

PATMOS

When I saw Patmos!

What a surprise!

 What a great beauty!

O! Fortunate I

Who came to this life!

Athanasia Tremouli.