Yiannis Ritsos quotes

I know that each one of us travels to love alone,
alone to faith and to death.
I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help.
Let me come with you. (Yiannis Ritsos)

All the words are not enough to get anything said.

Yiannis Ritsos

When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger; invisible hands draw back the curtains, a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust of the piano...

Yiannis Ritsos

Yiannis Ritsos

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Occupation: Poet
Born: May 1, 1909
Died: November 11, 1990
Quotes count: 3

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