Odysseas Elytis's best-known lines (with their collection)
The top 3 according to 37 votes from people: With the first drop of rain, summer was killed. · Sorrow grows beautiful because we resemble her. · The last journey looks like the very first.. (Updated Nov 19, 2022.)
From the "mad pomegranate tree" of Orientations to The Axion Esti and Maria Nefeli: the lines by Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996) that every Greek knows, with the collection and year.
Automatically translated (original in Ελληνικά). See the original
Top 14
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With the first drop of rain, summer was killed.
From the collection "Orientations" (1940).
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2
Sorrow grows beautiful because we resemble her.
From the collection "Maria Nefeli" (1978).
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3
The last journey looks like the very first.
From the collection "Sun the First" (1943).
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This small world, the great!
From the collection "The Axion Esti" (1959).
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Is it the mad pomegranate tree that fights the cloudiness of the world?
From the collection "Orientations" (1940).
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Greek the language they gave me; / a poor house on the sandy shores of Homer.
From the collection "The Axion Esti" (1959).
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7
No wave holds malice in its breast.
From the collection "Orientations" (1940).
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Only he who wrestles with the darkness within him will one day have his own share of the sun.
From the collection "The Axion Esti" (1959).
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What I love is born unceasingly. What I love is always at its beginning.
From the collection "Sun the First" (1943).
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Whatever you save in the lightning will last pure for ever.
From the collection "The Axion Esti" (1959).
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My God, how much blue you spend so that we cannot see you!
From the collection "Maria Nefeli" (1978).
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12
Man is a great thing, just to think of it.
From the collection "The Stepchildren" (1974).
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13
There is no such thing as a mistaken sea.
From the collection "Maria Nefeli" (1978).
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14
A young woman's breast is already an article of a future Constitution.
From the collection "Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience" (1982).
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Comments (1)
«Τη γλώσσα μου έδωσαν ελληνική» με τη μουσική του Θεοδωράκη... ανατριχίλα κάθε φορά. Το «Θάλασσα λανθασμένη δε γίνεται» το έχω γράψει στον τοίχο του δωματίου μου.