Picture: Henry Matisse, Femme à l'amphore - 1953
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| MODERN GREEK LITERATURE - Poetry's Jug |
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It has been granted to me to write
in a language that is spoken only by a few million people. But a language spoken without interruption, with very few differences, throughout more than two thousand five hundred years. This apparently surprising spatial-temporal distance is found in the cultural dimensions of my country. Its spatial area is one of the smallest; but its temporal extension is infinite.
Odysseus Elytis,
Nobel Lecture
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