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Greek Quotes Odysseas Elytis.

odysseus elytis ⌘the writer of the sun and the poet of the sea. Greece.

"Oh God, how much of blue color do you spend in your disguise from us” (free translation) ~ Odysseas Elytis. A quote from his poem "Maria Nefeli". Elytis won the Nobel Prize in Literature on 1979

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What was I looking for when you arrived, painted by the rising sun The sea's age in your eyes The sun's health in your body - what was I looking for Deep in the sea-caves, in the spacious dreams Where the wind scattered its feelings like foam Unknown and blue, carving its sea-emblem on my chest. ~ Odysseus Elytis

Odysseus Elytis,Nobel Prize in Literature 1979.Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages..Unlike others,he didn't turn back to Ancient Greece or Byzantium but devoted himself to today's Hellenism,of which he attempted to build up the mythology institutions.His main endeavour was to rid his people's conscience from remorses unjustifiable to complement natural elements through ethical powers.

"If you cannot find spring, make it!" ~ Odysseas Elytis

Yannis Moralis(1916-2009)was an important visual artist of the “Generation of the 30s”,the most cohesive group in Greek art.He studied Fine Arts under Parthenis.He went to Rome,then to Paris studying fresco and mural.From 1947 Moralis taught at the Athens School of Fine Arts until 1983. He formed the “Armos” art group with Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas,Tsarouchis,Engonopoulos etc. Over the years,he left his mark on the National Theatre.He also illustrated works by Elytis

Odysseas Elytis (Οδυσσέας Ελύτης)- Maria Nefeli (Μαρία Νεφέλη, 1978)

The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis, 4.58 · rating The Axion Esti is the work on which Elytis's reputation rests, and which almost certainly won him the Nobel Prize."--New York Review of Books