Em Formstone

“When Paris, a Trojan prince, stole the beautiful Helen from her husband, the King of Sparta, that,’ he pointed to the Marathonisi, ‘is where the runaways first dropped anchor. They left the caique and spent the first night together on the island. Homer wrote about it. It used to be called Kranae.’ We were dumbfounded. Kranae! I had always wondered where it was. The whole of Gytheion was suddenly transformed. Everything seemed to vanish except the dark silhouette of the island where thousands of years ago that momentous and incendiary honeymoon began among the whispering fennel.”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

“Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.”
― Babette Deutsch

“How enjoyable, how very enjoyable and luxurious it is, suddenly to emerge from the stern labyrinth of fact onto these dawn-lit uplands of surmise!”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

“Every rock and stream is a myth.”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese