Such is, rapidly and schematically drawn, the picture of neo-Hellenic poetic discourse. We who have followed have had to take over the lofty precept which has been bequeathed to us and adapt it to contemporary sensibility. Beyond the limits of technique, we have had to reach a synthesis, which, on the one hand, assimilated the elements of Greek tradition and, on the other, the social and psychological requirements of our time. In other words, we had to grasp today's European-Greek in all its truth and turn that truth to account. I do not speak of successes, I speak of intentions, efforts.
Orientations have their significance in the investigation of literary history.
This holds even more true for all those of us who, prolonging the furrow traced by Solomos, expect a miracle from discourse and that a spark flies from between two words with the right sound and in the right position. We remain mute, incommunicable. We are suffering from the absence of a common language. This contradiction is significant. Of two parts of the body, when one is hypertrophic, the other atrophies.