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Dinos Christianopoulos

1931-2020 ,  Greek poet
Dinos ChristianopoulosHe was born and lived in Thessaloniki. He was a poet, novelist, folklorist, editor and essayist.
His first poem Age of Lean Cows was published in 1947. Very popular on Greece, he was awarded the 2011 National Grand Prix for Literature, but refused to pick it up.

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They tried to bury me but they didn't know I was a seed.

Let's exchange body and loneliness.
I shall give you despair to stop being an animal,
you will give me strength to stop being a wreck.


(career)
from the garden to the vase
then in the trash bin.


Did the night lead me me to these streets?
or did these streets lead me to the night?


Of all abstract nouns
does it matter to exclude loneliness?



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