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" And look, my brother, we learned to talk
very quietly and simply.
We understand each other now - there is no need for anything more.
And I say tomorrow we will become still simpler;
we’ll find those words that take on the same weight in all hearts, on all lips so that we can call figs figs, and a trough a trough, so that others will smile and say: ‘We’re making you a hundred poems an hour’. This is what we want too.
Because we do not sing to separate ourselves from people, my brother,
we sing to bring people together. "

Yiannis Ritsos , The Fourth Dimension


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Yiannis Ritsos quote : And look, my brother, we learned to talk<br />very quietly and simply.<br />We understand each other now - there is no need for anything more.<br />And I say tomorrow we will become still simpler;<br />we’ll find those words that take on the same weight in all hearts, on all lips so that we can call figs <i>figs</i>, and a trough a <i>trough</i>, so that others will smile and say: <i>‘We’re making you a hundred poems an hour’</i>. This is what we want too.<br />Because we do not sing to separate ourselves from people, my brother,<br />we sing to bring people together.