Pietros Maneos Quotes

In the distance I hear a song - a simple song - a song of despair - a song of longing and a song of sorrow.
I have forgotten the words and the rhythm, but I sing.
Yes, I sing. ~ Pietros Maneos

His is a poetry devoid of any poetry. ~ Pietros Maneos

Until the blood from my pen runs dry, I shall worship the Greek body, the Greek mind, and the Greek soul.
Until my tears land upon Greek soil, I shall forever live in exile. ~ Pietros Maneos

And nothing holds more glory
than in dying for Love or Liberty. ~ Pietros Maneos

All that really matters is
to feel alive,
if only for a single moment –
to feel in Intense Sensation
that our existence is not an endless repetition
of sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing. ~ Pietros Maneos

Beauty, and its pursuit, is sustaining. ~ Pietros Maneos The Italian Pleasures Of Gabriele Paterkallos

If you deconstruct Italy, you will in the end see a grapevine, a tomato and a small boy hammering a shard of marble. ~ Pietros Maneos

Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror. ~ Pietros Maneos

Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful? ~ Pietros Maneos

A man's destiny is not written in stone, but in water. ~ Pietros Maneos

Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul. ~ Pietros Maneos

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in. ~ Pietros Maneos

In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be. ~ Pietros Maneos