Top 25 Elytis Quotes
#1. This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.
Odysseus Elytis
#2. I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave
John Keats
#3. My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.
Elizabeth Dole
#4. Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren.
Kyan Douglas
#5. If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.
Al-Mutanabbi
#6. 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
#7. Willing or not, we are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves. Here springs love's pre-eternal sadness.
Odysseus Elytis
#8. A fifteen-year-old dropped her cone, bent to retrieve it, then hesitated, abandoned the melting delicacy to the pavement and the soles of future passers-by; soon she would be one of the grown-ups and no longer lick ice cream in the street.
Gunter Grass
#9. 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
#10. When I go to bed at night, I wear a sleeping bag. And for a long time, I wore mittens so that I couldn't open the sleeping bag.
Mike Birbiglia
#11. Mister whoever-the-fuck you are," said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, "there isn't enough money in the world.
Neil Gaiman
#12. The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones.
Stephen King
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Well," said Ronan, "I hope he likes it. I've pulled a muscle."
Gansey scoffed, "Doing what? You were standing watch."
"Opening my hood.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth
Odysseus Elytis
#18. Coincidence, when raised to a symbol, occurs with mathematical precision at the most crucial moment, even for the squarest of minds. A moment the rest of us call higher will, Fate's gesture, something like that.
Odysseus Elytis
#19. I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#20. Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.
Odysseas Elytis
#25. The splendor of youth is, to a point, the splendor of error. Jealous the old, who have everything previewed! The nightingale will never come sing over your wisdom. It won't, darlin', it won't.
Odysseus Elytis
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