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“Ένα σώμα γυμνό είναι η μοναδική προέκταση της νοητής γραμμής που μας ενώνει με το μυστήριο. (A naked body is the only extension of the imaginary line that unites us with the unknown.)”

Imagination Unknown Nudity Mistery

Author:Odysseus Elytis

“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.”

Poetry Youth Perception Logic

Book:Open Papers - Selected Essays

Source: Open Papers - Selected Essays

“Ο Νόμος που είμαι δεν θα με υποτάξει: The Law I am will not subdue me.”

Law Poetry Freedom Human Nature

Book:Μαρία Νεφέλη

Source: Μαρία Νεφέλη

“Your mouth speaks with four hundred roses, beats the trees, overwhelms the entire earth, pours the first shiver into the body.”

Author:Odysseus Elytis

“And yet from what is to what could be you cross a bridge that takes you, no more, no less, from Hell to Paradise. And more bizarre: a Paradise composed of the exact same material as Hell. The only difference is our perception of the material’s arrangement – more easily understood by imagining it applied to ethical and emotional architectures – yet it’s enough to pinpoint the immeasurable difference. If the reality created by people whose half-mast emotions and sensations disallow, now and perhaps forever, the other architecture or, in other words, the revolutionary re-synthesis, then, to my thinking, only the spirit is free and able to take it on.”

Reality Perception Emotions

Book:Open Papers - Selected Essays

Source: Open Papers - Selected Essays