Quotes by
Odysseas Elytis |
1911-1996 , Greek poet, Nobel 1979
Original surname Alepoudhelis.Greek poet and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Quotations
| • | I wanted the minimum and they punished me with the maximum. |
| • | We must not forget that in the long twenty-five centuries there has not been one that poetry was not written in the Greek language. |
| • | Somewhere between Tuesday and Wednesday your true day must have been lost. |
| • | A naked body is the only extension of the imaginary line that unites us with the unknown. |
| • | When superstitions reach a mathematical clarity, they lead us to a deeper knowledge of the world. |
| • | Infinity exists for us as the language for the deaf. |
| • | Man is drawn from God like a shark from the blood. |
| • | The void exists as long as you don’t fall inside it. |
| • | When you hear "order", human flesh smells. |
| • | To stand firmly on the ground, one of your feet must be off the ground. |
| • | It’s bigamy to love and dream at the same time. |
| • | My God, how much blue you spend so we cannot see you! |
Quotes in Verse
| • | The sun is erupting inside us and we keep our palms on our mouths scared. |
| • | I have something transparent and inexplicable to say Like a bird song in time of war. |
| • | With the first drop of rain the summer was killed. |
| • | Yes, Paradise was not a nostalgia. Nor, much more, a reward. It was a right. |
| • | Always, always you pass through fire to reach the shining. |
| • | All cypresses show midnight. All fingers Silence. |
| • | As the kiss knows you, no one knows you. |
| • | You have a taste of storm on your lips –But where have you been? |
| • | You were light before my eyes. Love before Love And when the kiss took you, Woman. |
| • | Everything I love is born unceasingly Everything I love is always at the beginning. |
| • | What I like is my loneliness. No one comes close. |
