8 Quotes by Odysseas Elytis

If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.

Του θεού το στάρι στα ψηλά καμιόνιατο φόρτωσαν και πάει.Μες την έρμη κι άδεια πολιεία μένειτο χέρι που μονάχαμε μπογιά θα γράψει στους μεγάλους τοίχουςΨΩΜΙ ΚΙ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ

SAMEDI (SAINT), 25 PASSAGÈRE DE MON INSOMNIE d'hier un brin, pour un instant, elle m'a souri la mignonne déesse au ruban mauve qui depuis ma tendre enfance m'initie aux mystères Puis elle a disparu en flottant vers la droite pour aller vider le seau de mes scories - mégots de l'âme et poèmes avortés - là où rissole encore toute une jeunesse ancienneet arrogante la mer.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

You’ll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told me and his father told him, you will come to learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth.

The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished.

Bliss is not subtractbale.