Quotes by Odysseas Elytis

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Poetry cannot change the world. The world changes through deeds. But poetry can change consciences, and they are the ones who direct the facts.

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I don't pity poets who have run out of readers, I pity readers who have run out of poets.

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I don't think humanity will be able to find anything to replace poetry. Poetry will exist forever. And each age will find its own language that will make it viable, so that it can effectively fulfill its ethics - in the deepest sense of the notion - to be a true mission.