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My name is Dimitri Kondylis and I am of Greek origin. My writing ranges over a number of styles and topics. I write about how I feel, how certain things make me feel, and about what moulds me and who I am. I am a romantic at heart and will always try to find love in everything. I am single but have loved twice before, the feeling fills my world and Soul with joy. I am on the pathway of Spirituality. Thank you for visiting my page. May Angels guide your footsteps.
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This is a poem of great power in my opinion:
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever Gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not whined nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the Master of my Fate:
I am the Captain of my Soul!
W.E. Henley
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First quatrain from Auguries of Innocence
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour"
William Blake
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"Pourest thy full heart in profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
Shelley
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Some of my favourite quotes are:
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
- Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
- He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
- Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
- A dead body revenges not injuries.
- If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
- Folly is the cloak of knavery.
- Shame is pride's cloak.
- Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
- The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
- What is now proved was once only imagined.
- One thought fills immensity.
- He who has suffered you to impose on him, knows you.
- Expect poison from the standing water.
- You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
- The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
- The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- If others had not been foolish, we would be so.
- Joys laugh not, sorrows weep not!
- Exuberance is beauty.
- Enough! or too much.
These quotes above are all the words of my favourite philosophical poet William Blake.
- If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. (Anon)
- Life was meant to be enjoyed, not endured. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- Drought flavours water. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- Love is all you need, the rest is details. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- Life is a series of moments, you either choose to live in the moment or not. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- The difficult is accomplished immediatley, the impossible takes a little longer. (Anon)
- Simpicity itself is the hardest concept for mankind to come to terms with. (Anon)
- Know thyself.
- Carpe Diem - Seize the moment.
- Imagination is more powerful than will power.
- Your future is all in your mind.
- Reality has a sliding floor. (Emerson)
- Everything you want is not everything you need.
- What does not destroy me makes me stronger. (Nietzche)
- Just because you are a character does not mean that you have character.
- Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
- What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own Soul?
- The simple secret of the universe is you create your own reality.
- When the mind is weak, the body suffers. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- The first step towards growth is self-awareness.
- When paths cross, lives change.
- No person deserves your tears, and who deserves them won't make you cry.
- A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
- Don't spend time with someone who does not care spending it with you.
- Don't cry because it came to an end, smile because it happened.
- Don't struggle so much, best things happen when least expected.
- If you want a rainbow, you need to experience a little rain.
- Love is the adhesive of life, without it we fall apart. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
- Sometimes, in order to see the light, you have to risk the dark.
- There is no armour against fate.
- A wise man knows much and says little, a fool knows little and says too much.
- What is within us, surrounds us.
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- There is nothing in the world I so revere as beauty, whether of the world, of character or in a Soul.
- In order not to be a fool, an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
- Habit is a great deadener. (Samuel Beckett)
- There is no such thing as a great talent without a great will power.
- Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- It is a great thing to realise that you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
- Never underestimate the power of denial.
- We can become the limitless source of any positive quality we could ever fathom.
- If we are completely miserable in life, then we have wasted it perfectly.
- Love wholeheartedly while it is still possible.
- Love will come to you if you truly know that you deserve it.
- Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
- There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, ignitin the circuits of our highest potential.
- If you can dream it, you can do it!
- Do not live your life wondering if you will be wondering all your life.
- Knowledge is power.
- The pen is mightier than the sword. (For all us poets and writers )
- It's not how you live life, it's whose life you changed in the wake of yours.
- The difference between dreams and accomplishments is purely desire.
- A diamond was never polished without friction.
- Dance like no one is watching, sing like no one is listening, live like it is heaven on earth and love like you will never get hurt.
- The brave do not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all!
- Seize the moment, and the moment will echo forever...
- In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
- No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Helen Keller)
- You can count how many seeds there are in the apple, but you cannot count how many apples there are in the seed. (Ken Kersey)
- Whether you think you can or you think you can't, either way, you're right. (Henry Ford)
- If you tell the truth, you don't need to remember anything.
- You see things and say why? But I dream of things that never were and say, why not? (George Bernard Shaw)
- The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. (Harry Kemp)
- Everybody thinks of changing the world, but nobody thinks of changing themselves. (Leo Tostoy)
- We regret not the things we did, but the things we did not. (Oscar Wilde)
- When we put a limit on what we will do, we put a limit on what we can do. (Charles Swa
- A friend is a second self. (Aristotle)
- Failure seldom stops you, what stops you is the fear of failure. (Jack Lemon)
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Ask the dweller, not the builder. (Greek Saying)
- The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read, it will be the person who does not know how to learn. (Alvin Toffler)
- Character is doing what is right when no one is looking. (J.C. Watts)
- Wealth is measured not by what you have, but by what you have given away. (Native American Saying)
- If the boulders are moved, even a river can change its course.
- When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
- When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
- In small or enormous ways, we all do amazing things.
- Sometimes in the waves of change we find our direction.
- Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in spite of it.
- Each day has its own gift to offer, look for it.
- Experience is something you don't have until after you need it.
- Insanity can be described as doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
- The world's greatest resource is sitting under your hat and standing in your shoes.
- He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.
- The future arrives an hour at a time.
- Don't allow yesterday's failures or tomorrow's problems to rob you of today's victories.
- Value fellowship in a world where many walk alone.
- Change your thoughts and you change the world.
- The best helping hand you will ever find is the one at the end of your arm.
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I hope that these quotes have in some way brought a little light into your life as they have in mine.
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AP Family
I have a beautiful AP daughter Paula , aka pitufina 22love, check out her writings.
allpoetry.com/poets/pitufina%2022love
I also have a wonderful AP son Keith , aka Avalin, check out his deep poetry.
allpoetry.com/Poets/Avalin
I have a special hearted friend, Elmarie , who has incredible depth to her poetic words. She is truly a Wordsmith.
allpoetry.com/poets/Goddess%20of%20illusion
I have an AP brother, Jaun , who has wonderful talent with words, his poetry fills the mind.
allpoetry.com/poets/EagleWing
I have a new daughter in my family, Helen , who has an amazing depth and insight to her writing which is beyond most that I have seen.
allpoetry.com/poets/Friday
To my AP family and friends: May your pens always flow with your emotions and may your hearts always direct you.
__________________________________________________________________________
Well, I do hope that you enjoy my poetry and that you can connect to it on some level.
__________________________________________________________________________
My name is Dimitri Kondylis and I am of Greek origin. My writing ranges over a number of styles and topics. I write about how I feel, how certain things make me feel, and about what moulds me and who I am. I am a romantic at heart and will always try to find love in everything. I am single but have loved twice before, the feeling fills my world and Soul with joy. I am on the pathway of Spirituality. Thank you for visiting my page. May Angels guide your footsteps.
__________________________________________________________________________
This is a poem of great power in my opinion:
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever Gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not whined nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the Master of my Fate:
I am the Captain of my Soul!
W.E. Henley
__________________________________________________________________________
First quatrain from Auguries of Innocence
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour"
William Blake
__________________________________________________________________________
"Pourest thy full heart in profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
Shelley
__________________________________________________________________________
Some of my favourite quotes are:
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
- Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
- He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
- Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
- A dead body revenges not injuries.
- If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
- Folly is the cloak of knavery.
- Shame is pride's cloak.
- Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
- The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
- What is now proved was once only imagined.
- One thought fills immensity.
- He who has suffered you to impose on him, knows you.
- Expect poison from the standing water.
- You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
- The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
- The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- If others had not been foolish, we would be so.
- Joys laugh not, sorrows weep not!
- Exuberance is beauty.
- Enough! or too much.
These quotes above are all the words of my favourite philosophical poet William Blake.
- If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. (Anon)
- Life was meant to be enjoyed, not endured. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- Drought flavours water. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- Love is all you need, the rest is details. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- Life is a series of moments, you either choose to live in the moment or not. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- The difficult is accomplished immediatley, the impossible takes a little longer. (Anon)
- Simpicity itself is the hardest concept for mankind to come to terms with. (Anon)
- Know thyself.
- Carpe Diem - Seize the moment.
- Imagination is more powerful than will power.
- Your future is all in your mind.
- Reality has a sliding floor. (Emerson)
- Everything you want is not everything you need.
- What does not destroy me makes me stronger. (Nietzche)
- Just because you are a character does not mean that you have character.
- Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
- What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own Soul?
- The simple secret of the universe is you create your own reality.
- When the mind is weak, the body suffers. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- The first step towards growth is self-awareness.
- When paths cross, lives change.
- No person deserves your tears, and who deserves them won't make you cry.
- A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
- Don't spend time with someone who does not care spending it with you.
- Don't cry because it came to an end, smile because it happened.
- Don't struggle so much, best things happen when least expected.
- If you want a rainbow, you need to experience a little rain.
- Love is the adhesive of life, without it we fall apart. (Dimitri Kondylis)
- In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
- Sometimes, in order to see the light, you have to risk the dark.
- There is no armour against fate.
- A wise man knows much and says little, a fool knows little and says too much.
- What is within us, surrounds us.
- We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- There is nothing in the world I so revere as beauty, whether of the world, of character or in a Soul.
- In order not to be a fool, an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
- Habit is a great deadener. (Samuel Beckett)
- There is no such thing as a great talent without a great will power.
- Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- It is a great thing to realise that you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
- Never underestimate the power of denial.
- We can become the limitless source of any positive quality we could ever fathom.
- If we are completely miserable in life, then we have wasted it perfectly.
- Love wholeheartedly while it is still possible.
- Love will come to you if you truly know that you deserve it.
- Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
- There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, ignitin the circuits of our highest potential.
- If you can dream it, you can do it!
- Do not live your life wondering if you will be wondering all your life.
- Knowledge is power.
- The pen is mightier than the sword. (For all us poets and writers )
- It's not how you live life, it's whose life you changed in the wake of yours.
- The difference between dreams and accomplishments is purely desire.
- A diamond was never polished without friction.
- Dance like no one is watching, sing like no one is listening, live like it is heaven on earth and love like you will never get hurt.
- The brave do not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all!
- Seize the moment, and the moment will echo forever...
- In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
- No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Helen Keller)
- You can count how many seeds there are in the apple, but you cannot count how many apples there are in the seed. (Ken Kersey)
- Whether you think you can or you think you can't, either way, you're right. (Henry Ford)
- If you tell the truth, you don't need to remember anything.
- You see things and say why? But I dream of things that never were and say, why not? (George Bernard Shaw)
- The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. (Harry Kemp)
- Everybody thinks of changing the world, but nobody thinks of changing themselves. (Leo Tostoy)
- We regret not the things we did, but the things we did not. (Oscar Wilde)
- When we put a limit on what we will do, we put a limit on what we can do. (Charles Swa
- A friend is a second self. (Aristotle)
- Failure seldom stops you, what stops you is the fear of failure. (Jack Lemon)
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Ask the dweller, not the builder. (Greek Saying)
- The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read, it will be the person who does not know how to learn. (Alvin Toffler)
- Character is doing what is right when no one is looking. (J.C. Watts)
- Wealth is measured not by what you have, but by what you have given away. (Native American Saying)
- If the boulders are moved, even a river can change its course.
- When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
- When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
- In small or enormous ways, we all do amazing things.
- Sometimes in the waves of change we find our direction.
- Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in spite of it.
- Each day has its own gift to offer, look for it.
- Experience is something you don't have until after you need it.
- Insanity can be described as doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
- The world's greatest resource is sitting under your hat and standing in your shoes.
- He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.
- The future arrives an hour at a time.
- Don't allow yesterday's failures or tomorrow's problems to rob you of today's victories.
- Value fellowship in a world where many walk alone.
- Change your thoughts and you change the world.
- The best helping hand you will ever find is the one at the end of your arm.
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I hope that these quotes have in some way brought a little light into your life as they have in mine.
__________________________________________________________________________
AP Family
I have a beautiful AP daughter Paula , aka pitufina 22love, check out her writings.
allpoetry.com/poets/pitufina%2022love
I also have a wonderful AP son Keith , aka Avalin, check out his deep poetry.
allpoetry.com/Poets/Avalin
I have a special hearted friend, Elmarie , who has incredible depth to her poetic words. She is truly a Wordsmith.
allpoetry.com/poets/Goddess%20of%20illusion
I have an AP brother, Jaun , who has wonderful talent with words, his poetry fills the mind.
allpoetry.com/poets/EagleWing
I have a new daughter in my family, Helen , who has an amazing depth and insight to her writing which is beyond most that I have seen.
allpoetry.com/poets/Friday
To my AP family and friends: May your pens always flow with your emotions and may your hearts always direct you.
__________________________________________________________________________
Well, I do hope that you enjoy my poetry and that you can connect to it on some level.
__________________________________________________________________________
- Last seen on Aug 13 1:35 PM. Member since July 20, 2006.
- I'm a opaline dream poet for 900 comments.
- My mood is , and quote is ~Romance fills the love Divine~.
- I am a 33 year old man (South Africa)
- When I'm not writing, I'm Writer and anger therapist.
- I am in the groups For people who have depression or have recovered from depression or know how to survive depression, Kindred Spirits, Poets wanting comments, Psychic Auras, Romantics Dreamers, South African Poets, South African Talent, The Commenting Community, a poets dream of love, for the Love of Rock
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Sue Cardwell on July 2, 2007Hello Dimi,
Thought I would stop by and wish you well. It's a long time since we have spoken, I hope you are still enjoying life and eveything in your world is happy and filled with love and light.
Your friend always,
Sue...Sunshine
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Friday : :) on May 9, 2007I haven't talked to you in a long time and thought I would drop by and say hi.
So Hiiii ^_^
Take care
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Goddess of illusion : Hello stranger... on February 24, 2007
Just thought I'd leave you a note, to let you know I'm thinking off you...
Take care, dear friend...
Elmarie -
XxMissundastoodxX on October 14, 2006Yes Dimitri, I love so many of those quotes ( I see you even added a few of your own
) I think one of my favourite quotes would have to be "To the world you could be one person, but to one person you could be the world" and another quote I have seen on someone else's page here " Don't tell me the sky's the limit, when there are footprints on the moon" gives you something to think about doesn't it! Take care...
Mareta
Edited on Oct 14, 8:15 p.m. because 'Grrrr.....spelling error!'.
