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If you take Greece apart, in the end you will see remaining to you an olive tree, a vineyard and a ship. Which means: with just so much you can put her back together.

Odysseus Elytis

Greek the language they gave me;
poor the house on Homer's shores.
My only care my language on Homer's shores.
There bream and perch
windbeaten verbs,
green sea currents in the blue.

Odysseus Elytis

Odysseus Elytis

Odysseus Elytis

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Born: November 2, 1911

Died: March 18, 1996 (aged 84)

Bio: Odysseas Elytis was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Known for:

The Axion Esti (1959)
Open papers (1995)
The collected poems of Odysseus Elytis
The Monogram (1972)
The Sovereign Sun (1971)

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