Odysseas Elytis Quotes & Sayings

Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary. — Odysseas Elytis

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. — Odysseas Elytis

We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong ... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us. — Odysseas Elytis

Bliss is not subtractbale. — Odysseas Elytis

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. — Odysseas Elytis