'With an Olive Tree, a Vineyard and a Boat, You Can Rebuild Greece' Google Pays Tribute to Odysseas Elytis

Google honours Odysseas Elytis, Greece's Nobel Prize-Winning Poet

 101 years from his birth, holding papers, with poems flying around,  
Odysseas Elytis is depicted  in his trademark sailor's cap with
the Olive Tree, the Vine and the Boat, that can be used to rebuild Greece... 

essentially Greek images as meaningful and powerful as his timeless poetry

If you take Greece apart,

In the end you will be left with 

an olive tree, a vineyard and a boat...

which means that with these items 

you can rebuild Greece... 

Odysseas Elytis, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1979

Εάν αποσυνθέσεις την Ελλάδα, 

στο τέλος θα δεις 

να σου απομένουν

μια ελιά, ένα αμπέλι κι ένα καράβι....

Που σημαίνει: 

με άλλα τόσα την ξαναφτιάχνεις....

Οδυσσέας Ελύτης

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!

© GlobalGreekWorld 2012 All Rights Reserved

Axion Esti: Odysseas Elytis - 100 Years Since the Birth of Greece's Nobel Prize Winning Poet

 

Odysseas Elytis

Born 2 November 1911 

Photo Source: Wikipedia

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 was awarded to Odysseus Elytis "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness".

2011 is the centennial anniversary of his birth and has been officially designated as  the year of Greece's Nobel Prize winning poet Odysseas Elytis.

His marvellous poetry continues to be as strikingly relevant today as it ever was and continues above all, to give us hope for tomorrow...

We are of good stock...

From Sun the First

Ilios o Protos - Sun the First/The Sovereign Sun 

Maria Dimitriadis

Axion Esti 

Mario Frangoulis