Thought for the Day

. . . Life's essential length is only a few pages long,

as succinct as a line of verse

 and as brief as the title of a poem.

~ Kiki Dimoula, Greek Poet

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Quoted from Interview with Cecile Inglessis Margellos for The Margellos World Republic of Letters, Yale University Press (The interview is full of wonderfully quotable responses to Margellos's questions.)

Kiki Dimoula (b. 1931), Poet, Member of Academy of Athens, Recipient of Greek National Poetry Prize, Grand National Prize, Ouranis Prize of Academy of Athens, Aristeion of Letters of Academy of Athens, and European Prize for Literature

Three Poems by Kiki Dimoula at World Literature Today

What Sea? 20 Poems by Kiki Dimoula at The Drunken Boat

The Brazen Plagiarist: Selected Poems (Yale University Press, November 2012)

Rachel Donadio, "Inside a Greek Poet's Work, a Reflection of Her Country's Hard Times", The New York Times, January 11, 2013

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