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STONE

The same arrogance again:
carving your life on another life
as though wanting to release
your own statue in the belief
that you’re freeing the stone.

© Translation: 2005, Peter Mackridge

STONE

© 1975, Titos Patríkios
From: Proeretiki Stasi
Publisher: Kedros, Athens

Titos Patríkios

Titos Patríkios

Titos Patríkios held on to his ideals after the defeat of the Greek left in the 1940s and fought against their corruption in later years, against moral decay and compromise, against the repression of the individual. His combination of political engagement and scepsis about the human species, added to the ‘low tone’ of his poetry, had a profound impact on the ‘generation of ’70’. Patríkios was b...

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STONE

The same arrogance again:
carving your life on another life
as though wanting to release
your own statue in the belief
that you’re freeing the stone.

© 2005, Peter Mackridge
From: Proeretiki Stasi

STONE

The same arrogance again:
carving your life on another life
as though wanting to release
your own statue in the belief
that you’re freeing the stone.

© 2005, Peter Mackridge

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