Elytis Poetry Quotes & Sayings

The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things. — Sharon Jones

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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. — Odysseus Elytis

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed. — Stephen L. Carter

Emerson once said, "The difference between a hero and a regular man is that a hero was braver five minutes longer. — Jenni Pulos

We are very much at the mercy of circumstance, but it is how you choose to respond to circumstance that determines the quality of your life. — Chris Matakas

This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word. — Odysseus Elytis

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled. — Kenneth Lay

I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day. — Cynthia Heimel

The Woman is the Proletarian of the Proletariat — Flora Tristan

Forced relations between two things that superficially appear foreign create a new, instantaneous state. Authentic poetry asks nothing more. A kinship completely nonexistent moments ago was created by the poet's authority, just as it might have been created in life by the authority of chance. — Odysseus Elytis

I want you to be mine, Bianca. Will you be my submissive? — R.K. Lilley

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

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Poetry should express the apex, should constitute a kind of pioneering outpost in the unexplored area of life, should precede other arts in the depiction of sensitivity. It should be the word and sword intervening in the spirit, so that matter, docile, can follow. Creation, especially poetic, is above all a result. — Odysseus Elytis