16 Quotes by Odysseus Elytis

Ένα σώμα γυμνό είναι η μοναδική προέκταση της νοητής γραμμής που μας ενώνει με το μυστήριο.(A naked body is the only extension of the imaginary line that unites us with the unknown.)

Willing or not, we are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves. Here springs love’s pre-eternal sadness.

Logic has rid us of the absurdity of our clothes. That’s progress, no irony, only now we are cold. Hale and ill trade bodies with unusual willingness, while in midair souls tangle. The young start out disgusted and Poetry is left to the memo-writers.

The splendor of youth is, to a point, the splendor of error. Jealous the old, who have everything previewed! The nightingale will never come sing over your wisdom. It won’t, darlin’, it won’t.

don't fear what you are destined to suffer.

Ο Νόμος που είμαι δεν θα με υποτάξει: The Law I am will not subdue me.

Your mouth speaks with four hundred roses, beats the trees, overwhelms the entire earth, pours the first shiver into the body.

But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.

…justice is a precise moment, nothing more.