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Odysseas Elytis

“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, Open Papers - Selected Essays
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